In Sacramento, California, the city...
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In Sacramento, California, the city government has claimed that a group that works with homeless and mentally ill people is a public nuisance, and so the city is trying to limit what that group is doing. In Hartford, Connecticut, the city has refused to grant permits to any new groups that want to help the poor or needy. And in Richmond, Virginia, the city has passed a law that says that churches are not allowed to feed more than thirty people at a time. And if a church wants to feed more than thirty people at its building, the church is required to pay 1,000 dollars for a special permit.
It makes you wonder what Jesus would have done if those laws had been in effect in his day when he had those 5,000 hungry people and fed them with the loaves and fishes. In the face of opposition, we are called to love others in tangible ways.
-- Bowen
It makes you wonder what Jesus would have done if those laws had been in effect in his day when he had those 5,000 hungry people and fed them with the loaves and fishes. In the face of opposition, we are called to love others in tangible ways.
-- Bowen
