What attitude should Christians assume toward charity?
“The holy art of ‘giving for Jesus’ sake’ ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all state relief for the poor is a blot on the honor of your Savior. ” —Abraham Kuyper, The Problem of Poverty, First Christian Social Congress in the Netherlands, 9 November 1891 [78]. We as Christians must place the strongest possible emphasis on the majesty of God’s authority and on the absolute validity of his ordinances, so that, even as we condemn the rotting social structure of our day, we will never try to erect any structure except one that rests on foundations laid by God. [THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY, 64] God’s Word teaches that we have all been created from one blood and joined in a single covenant through God. Both the solidarity of our guilt and the mystery of the reconciliation on Golgotha are absolutely incompatible with individualism and point instead to a struggle within the interconnected wholeness of our human society. [THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY, 65] The
