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Originally Posted by Igzy
But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind, and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” Luke 14:13-14
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"The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel preached to them" ~Matt 11:5 This is God's economy, and it requires faith. If you had a restaurant, would you invite in people who had no means to repay you? Look at the banquet Jesus hosted and look at who came. When John the Baptist asked Jesus to give an account of his ministry, this (Matt 11:5) is what Jesus said to characterise himself... this was outreach, God's "high arm" outstretched, to those who could not repay. This was love.
Now by my own definition, my post doesn't constitute outreach, or ministration, or dispensing. But it serves two purposes: it helps me to get free from ones who'd hold us in mental slavery, and it suggests a course of profitable activity. Good enough.