Gary North An Economic Commentary of Leviticus, Chapter 1

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"Pastors for almost 2,000 years have preached against sin in general. Preaching against a specific sin can get a pastor in a lot of trouble if any of the church's leaders commit this sin regularly. Pastors who preach against specific sins preach against those that are not common in their congregations. . . . The modern church is blind to the moral evil of state-imposed welfare programs. Members are not taught about the great threat of dependency on the state. When the day of reckoning comes, and the modern welfare state goes bankrupt, churches will discover how expensive it is to follow the requirements of I Timothy 5. They will have far more indigents on their roles. There will be a stream of oldsters, hats in hand, who say: 'No one in our pulpits ever taught us to plan for our future in order to avoid dependency on the state.' They will be telling the truth. No one ever did. Nobody teaches them that they have a moral obligation to tithe. Nobody teaches them that they have a moral obligation to save and avoid consumer debt. No one teaches them that the voters are sinning when they vote to establish programs of tax-funded charity. 'That's politics,' pastors say. 'We don't get mixed up in politics.' Oh, yeah? They get mixed up in politics the day they send an indigent member to the state for tax-funded care." - Gary North