“But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
Paul wrote this to Timothy — a young pastor managing a church where some believers were offloading their family obligations onto the community's charity fund: letting elderly relatives become burdens on the congregation rather than caring for them personally. Paul's response is blunt.
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