"'Referral' is a game devised by people helpers to assist the needy in finding help somewhere else. It appears kind and is laced with compassionate words. It can be played by all kinds of churches and agencies. The only requirement is the purchase of a social service directory and a volunteer to dispense appropriate information.
"'Referral' is an attractive game for churches. Christians can discharge their responsibility to the hungry, naked, and the homeless with efficiency and cost effectiveness. Referral requires little personal contact with the poor.
"Referral is serious, too, because it deludes the resourced people of God into believing they have fed, clothed, and housed 'the least of these.' In fact they have neither sharied their bread, nor given their second coat, nor invited a stranger into their home. Referral allows us to process poverty with rubber-gloved safety rather than enter the contaminating world of redemptive relationships." - Robert D. Lupton
"Referral is serious, too, because it deludes the resourced people of God into believing they have fed, clothed, and housed 'the least of these.' In fact they have neither sharied their bread, nor given their second coat, nor invited a stranger into their home. Referral allows us to process poverty with rubber-gloved safety rather than enter the contaminating world of redemptive relationships." - Robert D. Lupton
Morgan }|{ "Look at Jesus only."
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