Essay On Evangelistic Community

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As we reside in an Evangelistic community we all hope to see Christians rise up and take their rightful place in the community, however this hope is largely fractured by the sin of mankind. Instead of viewing every aspect of the community ( people, establishments, health-care and justice system) as an unit created to function as one, we precipitate division and disregard issues of the community. Division arrives from superior/inferior thoughts, cultural and racial diversity, and religious differences. We care not for the community because we have not mustered up enough faith to be who Christ has called us to be. When I say “we” I am referring to the body of Christ. We have somehow made caring for others an option instead of a mandate that …show more content…

We categorize people based on what we think is popular (not to mention the uselessness of popular possessions which are all temporal). Americans socialize people based on the car that they should drive, the clothes they should wear, the house they should have and other doltish possessions that has largely contributed to generational poverty. Lower class families strives to keep up with middle class citizens by purchasing and sustaining possessions they think they ought to have because society tells them they should have it. Consequently, spending money on these possessions causes them to neglect daily necessities in which this financial mismanagement becomes a cycle from one generation to the next. This is a systematic devaluation of humanity. Aren’t we more valuable than what we possess? The good news is that (although in debt) America is monetarily wealthy, and we have enough resources to reverse the human-created system by investing in the community through education systems (equally affordable to all economic classes), raising minimum wage (which would directly impact lower class), supporting equality in wages even to immigrants, and managing estate

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