We just took a step closer to becoming as smart and caring as our Canadian neighbors to the north! OK, so that was just a plug for my good friends Dave and Cathi-Lyn Dyck. What do I really think about Christianity and health care, you ask? I think the Christian church has already been doing health care for years, actually.
But with regard to the newly passed health care bill, what I think is that Christians should worry with the mission of the church (which includes caring for those in need, may I remind you) and let politics go. Just let it go…it’s easy after a while, and the church has no business there in the first place. Politics will come and go; empires will rise and fall, but the word of God will stand forever:
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. Romans 13:1-7
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Nice! 🙂
I’m curious what you meant when you wrote, “I think the Christian church has already been doing health care for years, actually.” I can imagine a few different things being implied by this statement. What’s the way in which the Christian church has already been doing health care — and who is included in “the Christian church”?
Hey NFQ,
As far as I know, the church has been founding hospitals and caring for the sick as long as it’s been in existence, which is but one way it has cared for the poor historically. The phrase Christian church is used above in the visible sense, distinguished from the invisible church of all true believers in all places and ages: the visible and various institutions or organizations of established Christianity, though I would not discount monastic orders or independent groups or individuals and their activities thereto.
Thanks for dropping by; no questions are off-limits here.