I swear these guys train on the Old Testament and completely ignore Jesus.
Luke 12:33:
"Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys".
Matthew 19:21:
"If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven".
Luke 6:20:
"Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God".
Luke 14:13-14:
"But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed".
Matthew 25
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
Acts 20:35:
"In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive'.”
Even if you aren’t Christian, we need to quote the Bible and Jesus at these people. I’m tired of arguing. Either show your hand as a fraud and drop it or do actual Christian work. That party is a disgrace to Christ and live like James 2:14 & Matthew 6:5: they are faith and no works, while yelling about it on the corner. It’s complete hypocrisy.