The Blessed Giver (6)

There may have been a time when, as churches, we had difficulty in applying Jesus' words to Judas Iscariot in John 12:8, "The poor always ye have with you. . . ." Congregations build up charity funds and the deacons have little work besides collecting, keeping track of the money contributed, and paying a few bills of the church here and there. We have no poor, is the cry. Our deacons have no work, is the complaint. There may have been a time when, as churches, we had difficulty in applying...