NonFiction ~~- True Stories From The Jungle (Mission Journal)

How To Help People Without Doing Evil

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I began to see that every time I did ministry, I also did evil:


When I handed out food, I created the evil of dependency.

When I took into the monastery a child who had parents, I weakened the bond between the parents and the children.

When I educated the children, I took away the parent's responsibility to educate their own children, and planted the seed of the socialist educational system.

When I paid to have the children's cavities filled, I reinforced their poor eating and hygiene habits. They got nice looking diseased teeth.

When I put the children to work, this was good for them, but it also took them away from their parents.

When I gave out antibiotics and anti-parasitics, I encouraged antibiotic resistance.

When I gave the children books to read, they tore up the books, so more trees had to be cut down.

When I gave the children clothes, they tore up the clothes.

When I gave the children shoes, their feet got soft and weak.

When I showed children videos of biblical and education subjects, I encouraged television addiction...

When I provided sports ministry, I encouraged an amoral leisure culture.

No matter what I did, there was always some evil...


Except in one thing:

Teaching the children scripture songs.

I couldn't think of one thing about teaching children scripture songs that could possibly do any harm.

And the scriptures did much good...


A scripture song is a miraculous thing: It spreads its great bounty of goodness like multiplying rabbits, and can do absolutely no harm to anyone.