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[Compromise] Mooch-anaries
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John Henry
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Mar 18, 2005 06:40 PST
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MOOCH-ANARIES
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any
man that is called a brother be . . . covetous . . . with such an one no
not to eat. -- 1 Cor. 5:11
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and .
. . hath deceived his neighbour . . . Then it shall be, because he hath
sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore. . . the thing which he hath
deceitfully gotten . . . he shall even restore it in the principal, and
shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it
appertaineth . . . -- Lev. 6:2-5
Certain experiences, among the brethren, over the years, have
left indelible impressions. Consider the layman, who lost his job, and the
church that gave him money for groceries. The preacher just happened to
visit the fellow, immediately after grocery shopping. He peeked into the
bags, still on the table, containing cigarettes, Pepsi-Cola, etc. The poor
fellow quit the church, because he did not feel they were giving him enough
help.
Still, there was the lady, whose husband left her, who
tearfully presented her tale of destitution to the church, which responded
by bringing groceries to her. She took one look, in the bags, and said she
was not about to cook dried beans and went out and found her a sugar dandy.
What about the report of the starving family with children, to which the
preacher investigated; finding the man unemployed, he gave the man some
money and asked him to do some work around the church. The fellow lasted an
hour and vamoosed.
Then there was the infamous organ playing musician/preacher
from Middletown, Ohio, who boasted that the "Salvation Army" awarded him an
"A" for "begging." He blazed a trail through Connecticut, New York, and
Florida, ripping off unsuspecting Christians. And there was the preacher
that apologized to a visiting evangelist, for feeding him hot dogs, because
of his "keep a preacher poor" membership (soon after buying a side of beef,
at a good price, from one of those members).
Consider the letters from those TV outfits that present such
soul stirring needs? We copied the exact wording, from one such
letter, from a Virginia outfit (a thousand times our size and wealth), and
asked them for help with our church's needs. We received an apologetic
letter, explaining that they could only help the local needy. We copied the
exact wording from the second letter and answered the first. Paul warns
unsuspecting Christians, in 2 Peter 2:3,14 and 2 Tim. 3:1-13 and 2 Thess.
3:8-10, about the con men, buzzards, and dirt bags that desire to prey on
their tender hearts. How should such deceitful, greedy, covetous brethren
be handled? (With extreme caution!) Why not complete restoration of their
deceitful gains with twenty percent added, to the top, or else no
fellowship and no forgiveness? The scriptures demand that we do not
fellowship with them (let alone help them). We must be careful, however,
not to allow "Mooch-anaries and scars, from prior wounds, to harden us and
cause us to say to those, who are really deserving and needy of help, "be
thou warmed." We can make a distinction between the needy and the greedy,
and then make it hot for deceitful "MOOCH-ANARIES" and swindlers.
-- by Herb Evans
Plains Baptist Challenger - August 1980, p. 5
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But
now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is
called a brother be . . . covetous . . . with such an one no not to
eat. -- 1 Cor. 5:11<br>
<br>
If a
soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and . . . hath
deceived his neighbour . . . Then it shall be, because he hath sinned,
and is guilty, that he shall restore. . . the thing which he hath
deceitfully gotten . . . he shall even restore it in the principal, and
shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it
appertaineth . . . --
Lev. 6:2-5<br>
<br>
Certain experiences, among the brethren, over the years, have left
indelible impressions. Consider the layman, who lost his job, and the
church that gave him money for groceries. The preacher just happened to
visit the fellow, immediately after grocery shopping. He peeked into the
bags, still on the table, containing cigarettes, Pepsi-Cola, etc. The
poor fellow quit the church, because he did not feel they were giving him
enough help.<br>
Still,
there was the lady, whose husband left her, who tearfully presented her
tale of destitution to the church, which responded by bringing groceries
to her. She took one look, in the bags, and said she was not about to
cook dried beans and went out and found her a sugar dandy. What about the
report of the starving family with children, to which the preacher
investigated; finding the man unemployed, he gave the man some money and
asked him to do some work around the church. The fellow lasted an hour
and vamoosed.<br><br>
Then
there was the infamous organ playing musician/preacher from Middletown,
Ohio, who boasted that the "Salvation Army" awarded him an
"A" for "begging." He blazed a trail through
Connecticut, New York, and Florida, ripping off unsuspecting Christians.
And there was the preacher that apologized to a visiting evangelist, for
feeding him hot dogs, because of his "keep a preacher poor"
membership (soon after buying a side of beef, at a good price, from one
of those members).<br><br>
Consider the letters from those TV outfits that present such soul
stirring needs? We copied the exact wording, from one such
letter, from a Virginia outfit (a thousand times our size and
wealth), and asked them for help with our church's needs. We received an
apologetic letter, explaining that they could only help the local needy.
We copied the exact wording from the second letter and answered the
first. Paul warns unsuspecting Christians, in 2 Peter 2:3,14 and 2
Tim. 3:1-13 and 2 Thess. 3:8-10, about the con men, buzzards, and dirt
bags that desire to prey on their tender hearts. How should such
deceitful, greedy, covetous brethren be handled? (With extreme caution!)
Why not complete restoration of their deceitful gains with twenty percent
added, to the top, or else no fellowship and no forgiveness? The
scriptures demand that we do not fellowship with them (let alone help
them). We must be careful, however, not to allow "Mooch-anaries and
scars, from prior wounds, to harden us and cause us to say to those, who
are really deserving and needy of help, "be thou warmed." We
can make a distinction between the needy and the greedy, and then make it
hot for deceitful "MOOCH-ANARIES" and swindlers.
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-- by Herb Evans<br>
<br>
Plains Baptist Challenger - August 1980, p. 5<br>
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