WHY POLISH THE BRASS ON A SINKING SHIP?

In doing an honest look at history, we can trace our social welfare system to the time when the church gave up its role to care for the poor and the widows and the fatherless.

When did this trend begin?

It began at the same time that "pre-millennial Dispensationalism took a choke-hold in the churches of this country. We had leaders in the church declaring; "Why polish the brass on a sinking ship?"

Once I heard a preacher declare that it would be foolish to make improvements to rental property.

The teaching continues.

Until the Church takes back its God ordained responsibility to care for those among us who cannot, the government will continue to insert themselves where the church belongs. Pre-mil Dispensationalism,being the first of the excess baggage that needs to go by the way-side.