This might sound hard nosed, but it seems to me that "charity" has gotten out of control these days. Growing up in the 1950's if we didn't have school supplies we did the best we could with what our parents could afford. Aren't we called to help the "household of God" before the world? Sure seems to me things have gotten reversed. Having very little charity back then taught us that if we had no money we were not to expect anything! It also taught us that even though we didn't have money, we still had our dignity!
The law of Vagrancy was enforced, so you did not see homeless people. Due to drugs on the street and the divorce rate, we now see shelters. We are closer to the coming of the Lord and society is now in the state of an empire who just might fall. We give to kids clubs in Ukraine who teach them the Gospel, so I'm not saying that we should not give. It has gone to the extreme here in the states.
II Thessalonians 3:6-9:
6-9 Our orders—backed up by the Master, Jesus—are to refuse to have anything to do with those among you who are lazy and refuse to work the way we taught you. Don’t permit them to freeload on the rest. We showed you how to pull your weight when we were with you, so get on with it. We didn’t sit around on our hands expecting others to take care of us. In fact, we worked our fingers to the bone, up half the night moonlighting so you wouldn’t be burdened with taking care of us. And it wasn’t because we didn’t have a right to your support; we did. We simply wanted to provide an example of diligence, hoping it would prove contagious.
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