Government Welfare vs. Private Charity
From FFF
With Christmas approaching, perhaps this would be a good time to remind ourselves of the moral difference between government welfare and private charity.
Government welfare is based on the force of government. The IRS forces people to send in a portion of their income. If they refuse, the IRS goes after them. It files liens on their house, garnishes their bank account, and attaches their personal property. If people oppose the enforcement of such actions, they are met with an overwhelming amount of force by well-armed and well-trained federal agents.
Once the IRS gets its hands on people’s money, it is made available to the various federal bureaucracies, which then distribute the money to people named by Congress to receive them.
Most everyone involved in this process is supposed to be considered a good person because he’s helped the poor and needy. IRS agents are considered akin to Salvation Army personnel for their fine efforts collecting money for the poor. The members of Congress are praised for allocating the money to the truly needy. The welfare agencies are considered good for making sure the money gets to the right people. American taxpayers are considered saintly for tithing a portion of their income to help the poor. America, as a nation, is considered good because it set up the entire welfare-state system.
But the fundamental flaw in all this is simple to see: The entire process is based on force, which is employed to seize people’s money, which is then distributed to recipients designated by people’s political representatives..
Yet, how can the concept of force be reconciled with genuine charity?
It cannot be. Genuine charity entails voluntarily pulling out your wallet or checkbook and donating the money to a worthy cause.
Does it make any difference when money that has been taken by force is used to fund a worthy cause? Of course not. If I hold you up and take your money but end up donating it to my church, or to a 75-year-old impoverished couple, or to a student that cannot afford to pay for college, or to pay for a poor person’s life-saving heart operation, I remain a thief.
After all, your money belongs to you. It is your right to decide what to do with it. I have the right to ask you to make a donation to help with all those worthy causes. But you have the right to say no. If you say no, I have no right to take the money away from you by force, no how I plan to use the money.
What if a vote is taken in the community or the city council authorizing me to take your money and donate it to a worthy cause? That means I’m no longer considered a thief in the eyes of the law, but has anything changed from a moral perspective? Of course not. A fundamentally immoral act, whether robbery, murder, rape, theft, or whatever, cannot be converted into a moral act simply by majority vote.
Recall the story of when the young rich man approached Jesus, told Him that he was complying with God’s commandments, and asked Christ what else he could do to serve God. Jesus advised the man to sell everything he had and give it away and then to follow Jesus.
The young man couldn’t let go of his wealth and walked away.
Did Jesus and his followers forcibly take the money from the man and donate it to the poor? Did they summon Roman centurions to do the same?
No. Since free will entails the right to say no, Jesus let the man go his way, without initiating any force against him.
As we reflect on Christmas during the holiday season, let us also reflect on how the socialistic welfare state, with its process of forcible taking and redistributing people’s money constitutes a grave violation of the laws of God. Let us also reflect on how the concepts of freedom of choice and free will entail, by necessity, the right the reject one’s neighbor and even to reject God. Finally, let us reflect on the fact that genuine charity toward others is only when the donation comes from the willing heart of the individual, not because of a gun pointed at a person by some government official.
Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation.
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Dear Brother/Sister in Christ!
Greetings from Jhumra City Pakistan!
It is a great blessing writing you from Pakistan. I hope all is well with you this moment and pray that this email meet you well in Christ. Please beloved in the Lord, reply me urgently as you finish reading this email. The PSSWS have aim is working as a winning, saved of the poor, orphans Children, widows, poor Christian families for Jesus. We know that our God is faithful and loving and His grace abounds toward all who will accept it. His eyes are upon each of us to do us well, and no matter the need, God can supply. His promises are many and they are available to us night and day. Look to the Lord and depend on his faithfulness for you and yours. He will do for you what no other power can do. I’m praying for you and believing God with you for all things needed.
Dear Brother/Sister in Christ! We are much happy after reading your ministry information and visit your website. I’m happy knowing about concerning your ministry. I know that you are a legend Servant of Christ and your ministry is currently doing God’s work in around the World and God use you for His glory through various projects such as a Children, Women ministry etc in whole world. We appreciate your prayer concerning & helps our ministry do touch your hearts, open your mind and inspire your faith. We know that God knowing our patient, diligent, honestly, sincerity, loyalty, hard working for God’s purpose and God give you freedom, great vision, prosperity, restoration and much money for fulfilled our ministry needs.
Dear Brother/Sister in Christ! We are sharing with you ministry needs and in future commitments, agreements with you. We have running this ministry and have come to a stage of establishing the ministry to the glory of God and I have decided running this ministry under your organization and your Constitution, Rules and Regulation and So that we both can work for his glory as our Lord and Savior. We need your support with agreement of being your branch here in Pakistan. We need our church to bear your name as your branch here in Pakistan as we shall abide on your Constitution, Rules and Regulation. Please consider my request and you don’t disappoint to me in this matter.
Dear Brother/Sister in Christ! I hereby want to introduce us to you. We are full time missionaries spreading the Gospel to the lost and under privileged. We are involved in various projects such as the poor Christian community project where we do uplifting of the poor, through various projects such as Children, women ministry etc. The total population of Pakistan is 159 Millions. There are 97% Muslims, 1.5% Hindus and 1.5% are Christian, Islam dominates the other religions being in a vast majority. They have a strong hold over economy of Pakistan. They are wealthy, landlord, businessmen, and also hold the entire superior positions in the government sector. Whereas Christian are deprived of high positions in the offices, therefore they are forced to do all the menial jobs like clerks, sweepers, whitewashes, and other low paid job like bricks making and captured by rich people to do whatever they want Christian can’t get high ranks in army, Navy, Air force and Police and private sector is being run by under their authority, which also rejects the Christians to get a suitable job.
It’s in the constitution of Pakistan that high position shall only be held by Muslims and of on other religion, creed or cast. Therefore Christians find it hard to meet their expenses. The entire family has to toil hard to earn their daily bread and butter even some people sleep without eating because of poverty stricken. That’s why children of this neglected community remain illiterate due to limited resources. I’m well-known Pastor and religious leader. The people share their any spiritual, financially and life problems with me and they desire that I should help them in any problems, As a pastor and religious leader, it is my duty and responsibility to do such kind of Gospel work for enlightening the future of these Pakistani Christian Community to lead a good life walking in faith with Jesus Christ. As I’m ministering for Jesus being full time missionary and having not many facilities to afford conflicts, spiritual, financially and other life problems of the pitiable, oppressed, depressed and deprived people.
It’s my heartfelt pleasure to write you down this message to acquaint myself briefly being a follower of Jesus to you and I’m seeking for some good Christian faithful, spiritual, religious friends to share my feelings, impressions and everything that’s required in a good and long term friendship because I never want to waste my extra ordinary time just in chatting but wish to have some Christian religious friends to discuss with them over various kind of topics regarding to religion and some others to make my life more fruitful as I’m required of guidance, encouragement, and learning something being a teen age student and spiritually minded person. I hope that you would like to have friendship with me and be keeping touch with me by email or mailing address as I wait for your kind response. May God keep you under the throne of His grace and be with you forever as He promised before ascending to heaven.
Dear Brother/Sister in Christ! I have sent you ministry report year 2009 and 2010. Anyway, I would like to ministry report you what efforts we are making to education the poor women and Children spiritual and worldly make skilful the unskilled ones for earring their wages in good and respectable manner and to bring the unsaved people to Jesus Christ for receiving Him us their savior and lord to have everlasting life in heaven.
1. Our Running Projects!!!!
We are briefing to you at currently running projects like Widows Help, Help poor, orphan Children, The PSSWS Prayer house, Primary education, Sunday school center, Mobile medical dispensary, Preaching the Gospel, Gifts distributions programs, Healing Miracle Crusade in Pakistan etc.
2. Our Future Planned Projects!!!!
We are briefing to you our future planned & projects we are working with these projects started very soonest like, Old Citizen Monitoring Project, Animal Project, Adult education center, Sewing Knitting Center, The Food Projects. We are financially helping youngsters and poor, needy children in their studies and running Sunday schools in different places. We are praying and going door to door and city to city to fulfill the great commission of Lord Jesus Christ. We have a need to work very rapidly please join us for revival in Pakistan. The dateless as given below:-
1. Primary Education
2. Sunday School Center
3. Preaching the Gospel
4. Gifts Distributions Program
5. Free Medical Dispensary
6. The PSSWS Prayer House
7. Help for Poor Orphan Children
8. Help the Widows
9. The Food Project
10. The Miracles Healing Crusade & Seminars
11. The Animal Project
12. Adult Education Center
13. Sewing Knitting Center for Poor Women & Girls
14. Old Citizens Monitoring Project
15. The Christian Community Facing Persecution in Pakistan
16. Our Requirements
1. Primary Education!!!!
The PSSWS have started one primary school promote education among with illiterate poor Children can not read Holy Bible. At least (100) Children are going education in our little primary school and most of them are poor orphan and unable to pay their school fee. But in our school they gain spiritually and worldly education free of cost and some of them pay a little fee that we use for the betterment and maintenance of school activities. Six Teachers teach the Children on a very small salary package because of having lack of monthly support and other necessary materials resources.
2. Sunday School Center!!!!!
We have started Two Sunday school center in our area under this organization in which the Children are feeded by teachers with word of God where they are learn how to praise the God., worship and read the (Holly Bible) More then (200) Children attend Sunday school class
after every week.
3. Preaching the Gospel!!!!
I and My small evangelical team preach the Gospel in our Faisalabad District that’s the third biggest cities of Pakistan. We are preaching many part of Pakistan and delivered the word of God among with unsaved, unbeliever, hungry souls for Jesus Christ. I and My small evangelical team saved 250 person for Jesus Christ and 300 person repent own sins and 200 person getting the baptized in the water and 125 filled with Holy Spirit, get the baptized of Holy Spirit and speak other tangs. Our Gospel team members are as given below:-
01. Rev. Pervaiz khokhar (Founder & Chairman)
02. Pastor Francis Rehmat (Senior Pastor)
03. Eva. Mrs., Farzana Javeid (Executive Director, Women Ministry Department)
04. Eva. Javeid khokhar
05. Eva. Hinna Yousaf
06. Eva. Mavish Yousaf
07. Elder Noor Masih Qamar
4. Gifts Distributions Programme!!!!!!
The PSSWS Gifts Distributions Programme On every Christmas and Easter distribute Gifts among the poor, orphan children, Widows and poor families as some people donate us locally and we collect donations some friends from around the world twice a year at every Christmas and Easter festivals among the poor, orphan children, Widows and poor families. Distributing Christian gospel literature to people traveling, walking and students in Schools and colleges and hospitals jails etc…The Holy Bible is being freely given to all those who are eager to read but can’t afford purchasing one, Proclaiming the good news in the streets, and follow-up by the local native missionary.
5. Free Medical Dispensary!!!!!!!
We are going to start medical dispensary here in Pakistan, because the Christian people in Pakistan are unable to take basic needs such as health care, medical facility. Due to this reason Christian people, have little sources to earn income. More over due to this Pakistani Christian men & women, widows, poor orphan children are unable to get the medicine & health care facility. Most of the seasonal diseases spread in the village & town and many Pakistani Christian men & women, widow children, souls have passed. Most of women died during the delivery time due to the lack of medicine and not in time treatment and not their health facilities in urban and rural area in our district. Our medical dispensary for poor people treatment every day check (35) people. All above mentioned activities needs money to get the Pakistani Christian men & women, widows so that, it could be make possible for their treatment free of cost. I’m working with depressed,Oppressed, Tyrannized and Poverty Stricken women, Children to make them world’s citizen and kingdom of God. But women face lot of problems as they have to do work hard to fulfill their needs of families, but their wages isn’t enough and this is the reason. Then we planned and God give me direction start free mobile Medical dispensary and free maternity home for Poor, Christian Community women to provide them health facilities.
6. The PSSW Prayer House!!!!!!!
The PSSWS have changed the mind of every Christian person in our area through prayer meetings every Wednesday. We have started our regular weekly prayer meetings and by the grace of God we are increasing our Church and weekly meetings gathering day by day. Here in this catholic people are strong. For many people seeking solution to various issues of life, it can be very difficult to obtain help and proper counseling some time. Our prayer house programs provide free access to individual that has a need for prayer for various problems. If you would like to be part of one of these outreaches. It’s much hard to change their mind and also give them water baptism. Now we also need Urdu Holy Bibles to distribute in these people as they are unable to buy, because these people are living below the poverty level. We hope our God will work and give burden to His saint people and they will support our ministry monthly basis for teach the poor needy people the true
gospel.
7. Help For Poor Orphan Children!!!!!
The PSSWS have aim is working as a winning, saved of the poor, orphans Children for Jesus. By the grace of God PSSWS is supporting 50 children in different age groups. These children have been orphaned due to different circumstances like being abandoned as babies and others are victims of many diseases. We are committed to working in a way which will impact the spiritual, physical and emotional needs of the people we serve. All children long to feel the love of Jesus expressed to them through personal relationships with mature and caring adults. This is the blessing of lord, who gives burden to His people for helping the poor, orphans & needy Children. The main aim of The PSSWS is to promote education (Religious and secular) illiterate Children and Christian person can not read Holy Bible. The DCVP is helping the poor, orphans & needy Children and poor Christian Community of Pakistan to get education. Due to this passion PSSWS distributed free secular books in the poor, orphans that they can school education. DCVP is having very urgent needs of helping for poor, orphans on a monthly basis.
8. Help The Widows!!!!!
This is the very pain full part of our ministry. In our country Pakistan widows are suffering with hungry and have not any facilities for their Children. Every month we have visited a widow’s home in urban and rural area in our district. Really our heart fills with sadness when we will plan start given something’s and necessary materials of her Children. The PSSWS ministry have plan supporting widows on monthly bases, but it’s depend upon the funds from the foreign countries But we are trying to help them as much as we can. Every Christmas & Easter Festivals we distribute gifts twice a year among with widows in our area. If you want to show your love offering with the help of gifts, money, please do not hesitate to send us and contact with us. If you would like Support poor and neglected widows, poor families on a monthly basis. When Pakistani women are widowed–even those from the middle classes–their social and economic status is affected. Sadly, women in this situation often do not have the means or ability to find employment. They are reduced to second-class citizenship within Pakistani society. With your gift of $80/month, a widow is given food, shelter, medical care, and clothing. They are also taught that Jesus loves them. These hungry, needy and depressed widows will pray for you and our lord will give you reward from the door of heaven. All above mentioned activities needs money to get the Pakistani women, widows so that it could be make possible for their help. I’m working with depressed, Oppressed, Tyrannized and Poverty Stricken women, Children to make them citizen world and kingdom of God.
9. The Food Project!!!!!
I want to tell you about as you know that here people are very poor eve they have nothing wait up twice a day. Income sources are a few and they have to do work very heard, but their wages is not enough to fulfill their all needs of their families as they live from hand to mouth, even they are using their under age Children to have resources. So we plan started the food project for poor Christian families here in our Pakistan. We feed the ten Families, One family monthly expense ($, £, €, 80) and monthly expenses for ten families ($, £, €, 800)
10. The Miracles Healing Crusade & Seminars!!!!
We arrange & organized healing, miracles crusade and revival meetings in Pakistan and we invite all saint Pastors, evangelist minister of God from around the world to you coming in Pakistan. As it concerns to my information so many people have been (Changed) As a lot (Miracles, Healing, Crusades & Seminars) are being in through Pakistan where God do amazing things and particularly the (Gentiles) are known about Jesus Christ. I hope and believe in Christ encouraged to you and serve to you in future for His own purpose here in Pakistan for saving, hungry, unsaved, unbeliever souls for Jesus. I know you are a great servant of God. I know Holy Spirit guide and give you grant, money and opportunity, open the door for you to coming in Pakistan for visit our ministry. We shall welcome to you with great pleasure and I accept that God will do everything in my favor concerning to our community spiritual need. It is our desire you in Pakistan. Would you please consider coming to Pakistan and bless our country. We would like to have a Miracle Crusade. Thanks for your prayerful considering. Would you like to stay with us? If it’s so it will be an honor and pleasure for us to host you. Kindly keep in touch with us and bring word regarding to your visit to Pakistan. We shall welcome to you with great pleasure and I accept that God will do everything in my favor concerning to our community spiritual need.
11. The Animal Project!!!!!
I want to tell you about as you know that here people are very poor even they have nothing wait up twice a day. Income sources are a few and they have to do work very heard, but their wages is not enough to fulfill their all needs of their families as they live from hand to mouth, even they are using their under age Children to have resources. They would be developed by providing them animals to feed their children with proper essential physical needs. We have decided to take first step of developing the people through our organization. A good buffalo and Cow will cost $850 and will provide at least 4 liters of milk per day. This can either supplement nutrition for a family, or can be sold to provide income. Regular breeding will continue this provision for years to come. The woman said ‘You have saved my life. I am an old woman with no means to earn enough to live, and you have given me and my family life. Help sustain a village family by specifying “Buffalo Project” One Cow or Water Buffalo’s provide a lot of good milk to drink and to make yogurt, cheese and butter! They also produce calves that can be sold for income or used to produce even more dairy products for additional income and nourishment for needy tribal families. A dairy cow is one of the most valuable gifts Hens and a Hens coup for the start-up of a poultry farm which provides food, employment and income for an individual or family. You can give an especially gift that will never be forgotten. We want to proper ten families first, then automatically a lot of people should be developed as their given animals given birth to many animals and then they can distribute them among other families.
12. Adult Education Center!!!!!
Here we want running an Adult Education Center on faith and self-support. Under the society we are running an adult education center for spiritual education among the Christian man and Young Children. We are doing the adult education program in very pitiable circumstance on faith and self-support. This project makes a positive difference in the lives of the people as they shall prosper because they shall have more resources to again education to become good citizen of our country. This way we can also preach the Gospel easily as you know we shall not have to face difficulties to bring them word about Jesus as their savior and lord. They shall also become good witness for Christ and citizen of His kingdom.
13. Sewing Knitting Center for Poor Women & Girls!!!!!
We needs start Sewing and Knitting Training Center Program for Poor Christian Girls & Women is been want running by PSSWS organization to make the Poor Christian Girls & Women skillful to earn the livelihood for fulfilling their needs and feeding their Children. I have future planned every Year (35) Girls and women take advantage of this skill of sewing and knitting to help their husbands to meet with their needs of family. Let me bring you word that women of our area live in pitiable circumstances. They don’t have proper skills to earn something to educate and feed their children. Therefore, it is needed very much too successfully implement this project to save many families, for women and Children should be enabled to gain education to be prospered in future. They can also come to Jesus for having eternal life because they may become known to the Bible if they are educated. The Sewing and Knitting Training Center was trained with 35 Christian Girls & Women enrolled in a 1 year program. The total cost of The Sewing and Knitting Training Center including materials and salaries was $1295.88. The Sewing and Knitting Training Center Program in Pakistan for Poor Christian Girls & Women.
14. Old Citizens Monitoring Project!!!!!
The PSSWS have vision providing proper care, shelter, and food, health facilities for the Pakistani old men & women, widows and have an on plane accommodation to the old people in Pakistan and also arranged for the security. The PSSWS provider new paradigms in social protection including health, home care, and income security for old age people in future.
We are going to start old citizens monitoring project here in Pakistan, because the old people in Pakistan are unable to take basic needs such as food, health facility. Due to this aged people have little sources to earn income. More over due to this Pakistani old men & women, widows are unable to get the medicine & health facility. Most of the seasonal diseases spread in the village & towns and many Pakistani old men & women, widow children, souls have passed. Most of women died during the delivery time due to the lack of medicine and not in time treatment and not their health facility in urban and rural area in our district. All above mentioned activities needs money to get the Pakistani old men & women, widows so that it could be make possible for their treatment free of cost. I’m working with depressed, Oppressed, Tyrannized and Poverty Stricken women, Children to make them citizen world and kingdom of God.
COMPARATIVE STATUS OF OLD CITIZEN IN PAKISTAN
1. At best, older people live on between a third and a half of average incomes in Pakistan.
2. Within 50 years, one person in five may be over 60. In 1950, 8 out of every 100 people were over 60. By 2050, 22 out of every 100 may be over 60.
3. The Pakistani older men & women serious cause of ill health in older people lack of food health facilities.
4. Older widows are among the poorest Christian community living situation in Pakistan.
5. Older people are the primary careers for orphaned and some children have affected by HIV/Hepatitis, ABC in urban and rural area in our district is of Pakistan.
15. The Christian Community Facing Persecution in Pakistan!!!!
The Christian Community especially Young Christian Women, Girls are Facing Persecution & Violence’s victimized of Muslims to have sex with them which is called to be rapped. In this situation many unpleasant occur like blasphemy low adultery-education, brick making kiln slavery and persecution is the normal phenomena of the society. Sometime as they do cleaning in house of rich families, they are victimized of Muslims to have sex with them which is called to be rapped. We have some cause in which they Muslim boy threw acid on Christian girls and even they register cases against these girls and put them in jail to avoid the consequences of their evil acts.
16. Our Requirements!!!!!!
We want to support our pastors and Evangelist’s and preachers on monthly regular basis as we have totally (15) in numbers. At least ($50 US Dollars) are required for each one. A Film projectors is needed to show them Jesus Film those who don’t know how to read the (Holly Bible) but now we use rented. We request to every person who works for God to come to Pakistan for ministering to our Church, though Holding Seminar and crusade, to bring many to Jesus to have eternal life. We wish to distribute (Ten Thousand 10,000 Holly Bibles) in our area free of cost among the poor needy people that cannot purchase even the (Holly Bible) More-Ever, You can read our ministry report and find whatever you can do for organization and inform us what in formation you what more about it. We want to start a free mobile Dispensary for poor Children & women in our area in Pakistan. We want to start a free distribute (The Holly Bibles, Shoes, Toys, Foods, Sunday school Material, New &Secondhand Clothes, Medicine Etc) among the poor, orphan Children and women, Christian community in Pakistan. May God bless you under the throne of His Grace always? Kindly we are requested you to have communion with us for building the Kingdom of heaven together as your collaboration will sustain our activities and reinforce our devotion for working in the vineyard of Christ with more dedication and consecration. Grace of Jesus Christ and the love of God always are with you.
Dear Brother/Sister in Christ! Please pray for me, my ministry and family that God may bless and have us more recourse to use them for His glory to save so many lost sheep. Our God is faithful and everything He will provide us to use it for His glory. Do you know you and your family always in my heart, thoughts, mind & daily prayer and I also hope that we shall be together in heaven where our lord of lords is. Please bring me word also about your family and ministry so that I may lift all of you up in my daily prayer. I’m concerned about souls and the children. I believe we must reach this generation for Jesus he is coming soon. I love you dearly keep me in your prayers I will be hearing again soon from you. Thank you very much for your prayer! We love and deeply appreciate you all!
Yours Brother in Christ!
Reverend Pervaiz Khokhar
Chairman
The Preaching Society & Social Welfare Services
Mohallah Rasool Pura Street No 7
Jhumra City 37700
Faisalabad,
PAKISTAN
Telephone: +92-41-8527541
Mobilephone: +92-300-7914561
E.Mail:pssws2010@gmail.com
E.Mail:pervaiz_khokhar2002@yahoo.co.in