Closing Thougths

In Senegal there is the struggle for the Believers to trust God for their daily bread. Tomorrow may bring an epidemic of malaria or yellow fever to take away their children. Or they may not have enough seed or fertilizer to plant their crops, or a poor rainy season will wipe out their harvest.

How do westerners who for the most part have the means to help when they ask, do so without creating a dependency upon man and not God?

But how could we say no to the requests when we are able to meet the needs? And if we do say no how can we expect them to respect our message of Christ?

Have we in the West introduced a Christianity that does not represent adequately the message of Jesus and His Kingdom? I heard repeatedly from the Senegalese Believers a perceived connection on their part between God’s favor equaling Material blessing. And why wouldn’t they when they see those of us from the West who presume to teach and show them the ways of Jesus possessing such abundance of wealth.