It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and evenโin some casesโenough food to escape starvation.
Ronald J. SiderGod's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at allโno matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.
Ronald J. SiderEvidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective.
Ronald J. SiderIf we fail to feed the needy, we do not have God's love, no matter what we say. Regardless of what we do or say at 11am in a Sunday morn, affluent people who neglect the poor are not the people of God.
Ronald J. Sider