Health Care

If there was a Health Care Bill in Congress we could read it and know where we are headed. Since there isn’t a bill, according to Congress leaders and spokespersons, we can only guess as to what is coming.

One of the strangest issues to me is the one that is constantly focusing on the “uninsured.” Some say there are 30,000,000 or more people without insurance. Some say the number is only around 12,000,000. Whatever the number, it is one of the major causes behind “reform.” However, even Congress itself (or the aforementioned spokespeople) says that the current legislation will leave 25,000,000 people still uninsured. So how exactly does that help the problem?

Now I only bring that up so that I can say the following — it’s sorta like the Church. We’ve got millions of believers around the countryside that don’t have any involvement, or at the very best, little involvement in support of the ministries to which we (the Church) have been called. They don’t come around much, don’t encourage, support, minister to, care about, or llove, the Family of God. The Staff (of any given Church) can expound and extole all sorts of Biblical Truth about the mandatory nature of such things, but nothing will happen until the people who make up the portion of the Body who fail to be obedient to God’s revealed Truth, get their own act together.

People who don’t have insurance either don’t want it, or can’t afford it, and are unlikely to get insurance until you give it to them for free. And if it is given to them for free, who is going to pay for it? Well, it will be the people who have insurance, and the double billing (premiums and taxes) will ultimately doom all but the very rich.

So it is with the people of God who carry the ministry load of the Church, while others, ostensibly believers, fail to live up to their calling. As a result, the Church, rather than being strong and healthy, struggles to meet the need of a society bound for Hell because so few carry so much.

Things have gotta’ change!