You know, it reminds me of when bums will come to our church and want free money and
handouts and things, and I always ask them, I say, well, where did you go to church last
Sunday?
What am I saying when I ask them that?
I'm saying, well, go cry to the gods that you've been worshiping.
You know, go cry to the god of the Philistines.
Go cry to the god of the Ammonites.
You know, they come to me and say, oh, man, I need the money, blah, blah, and it's like,
well, where did you go to church last Sunday?
Oh, well, you know, and I just say, well, look, wherever you went on Sunday, wherever
it was, go ask them for help.
I don't know whether it was a bar or a casino or a Burger King or the gas station or maybe
it was the Mormon Church or the Catholic Church or wherever you went last Sunday, go ask them
for help.
That's what I tell people.
That's your church, so they will help you.
This is not your church.
I don't know you.
I'm just like, I never knew you.
Depart from me.
It'd be like if you went to Wells Fargo and you just want to withdraw money and your account
is at Chase.
Your account's at Chase.
You're trying to withdraw money at Wells Fargo.
It doesn't make any sense, does it?
Now look, if someone in our church is in need, then that's our problem, right?
That's our responsibility, but here what you've got is people just refusing to work, and here's
the thing.
You say, well, what about helping people outside the church?
Look, I'd love to help people outside the church, but here's the problem with that is
that we don't know their situation, and the thing is the people who go here, we actually
know them.
We actually know their situation, and we can actually take the time to figure it out as
opposed to somebody who's literally just hopping from church to church just saying,
my name's Jimmy.
I'll take all you give me, and they don't even have any legitimate need.
They just refuse to go to work.
Does everybody see the problem with that?
Look, if there is someone legitimately in need that I knew for sure is legitimately
in need outside the church, yeah, I would have no problem being charitable and helping
that person, but when somebody just calls me up and says, could I speak to the pastor
if he or she is available?
Right away I know this person doesn't even know who they're calling, and I've literally
had them call me before and just say, oh, could I speak with the pastor, please, and
I just say, which church are you trying to reach right now?
Oh, they don't even know the name of the church that they just dialed, and I'll ask them,
well, what's the pastor's name that you want to talk to?
What's his name?
You know, because they're literally just calling down a list, and they get money from
this guy.
They're just trying to get money from as many different people.
Go cry to the church that you went to last Sunday.
Go cry to the God that you've been worshiping, right?