My mom's church makes breakfast during Easter week every morning for the public. Today was the prison day whereby the church feeds all the prisoners breakfast who are in the local jail.
My mom was up there this a.m. helping to prepare the 40 plates for the jailer to pick up and take back to his prisoners. Bojangles had donated 100 biscuits to the prisoner cause of which my mother voiced appreciation to other members while preparing breakfast.
A church member piped up and says, "I don't know why we have to feed them prisoners anyway, Let's just let Bojangles feed em' next year altogether" in a nasty little manner. Plates were heaped as the man's remark were ignored and the jailer picked up the welcome breakfast for his prisoners and fellow guards. Why is it that church people are afraid to address hypocrisy within their own peoples?
I do not attend church. Hospice is my church. However, in the mail this week a man will open an envelope to find these verses:
Matthew 25:43-45 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not... Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
I'm heading to the Post Office now! Happy Easter Everyone!
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Who knows? The kind act of serving these inmates might actually make a diference down the line.
People with nasty comments should be shamed.
Hypocrisy within organized religions is the main reason I do not belong to one.
Where in Western NC do you live? I lived near Hendersonville for many years.
Thank you for visiting my blog.
I live about an hour north of Charlotte.
Thanks for posting!
a moment of kindness given free heartedly to someone who is going through a trying time in their life should never be condemed by anyone , I`m sure if the shoe was on the other foot , he would have felt differently .............Robert
I've never been to Bojangles.
I had a sister-in-law who attended church regularly every Sunday, she was very religious, but she was not a Christian.
I think it is refreshing to see that you are a Christian, and you don't need to attend church to be one. People lose sight of what Christianity is, don't they? You sound like a very nice person.
Josie
Wow Robin!
My husband was born and raised in Taylorsville NC.
Glad you stopped by my blog.
People definitely do lose sight of what Christianity is...church people are often the worst.
Why is it that church people are afraid to address hypocrisy within their own peoples?
It's not just church people. No one likes to admit when they're being hypocritcal. Perhaps church people are a bit more judgemental than others and it's more important for them to save face?
Happy Easter Robin!
Happy Easter to you as well!
Thanks Dan! I read a comment you made earlier on here and it has disappeared...not sure what happened to it but I enjoyed reading it!
I'm a nut...I found it and it's posted...DUH!
Bless you for the job you do. I went to nursing school. didn't make it. gotta be a tough cookie and I'm not.
My sister is an RN, too.
I added you today. We have things in common!
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