Mere Christianity – C. S. Lewis (1952)
Like always as a race we tend to want it all, and to put the least amount of effort into getting it.
Perhaps some that maintain a healthy church presence are using that to justify or counter-balance the cut-throat world in which they work. I’m not saying that way of thinking is technically wrong but it just strikes me as constantly playing a kind of get-out-of-jail card in order to keep a clear conscience.
I suppose the big question for me would be how the balance is struck between the harshness of business actions to those of the self-sacrifices that involve the church and the community. To out it brutally … just how much does it cost in charitable donations to ease a conscience for say, making people that live in the same place and go to the same place of worship redundant? Can there be a scale, or even should there be one? In order for the company to prosper and therefore ensure that no other jobs have to go a few workers lives are ruined, but in saving the livelihood of those that remain it cripples those that don’t, whilst through it all the ones making the cuts are not affected.
Profit before people (always?) … one likes to hope not but I think that is putting too much hope out there in the way society functions today.