Chastain from Savannah, Georgia asks, Pastor John, should we as Christians give to people

begging on the street?

Well, that question is not foreign to me.

I have wrestled with it for 33 years because that's how long I've lived in this neighborhood.

When I lived out in New Brighton, I virtually never faced that.

For the last 33 years, I have faced it almost every day, just to give the listener a taste

of where I lived today, today.

I was driving over, I was walking over and a man with his little cardboard sheet saying

he needs work or needs money, was standing at the corner of the exit ramp of onto Leventavineau

and the street where I lived.

So I deal with that person, those people most often right there walking by them rather

than driving by them.

So yeah, it's real and here's the answer and it's where I am right now, it's what I think

is biblical.

My answer should you give to those who ask, knocking at your door or asking on the street

and my answer is usually yes.

The default should be yes and here's my reason, selfishness is so dominant in my heart.

I am reflexively hard toward this person.

He makes me mad.

I want to say get a job.

I don't even interested in his story, I'm not interested in his condition, my reflex

is anger, my reflex is get a life and I think that's a sinful reflex.

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