🔸When they need to loot and lie, they say the economy is booming.
When the nation faces a drought, they tell the citizens to eat porridge.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
A hyena raids the village chicken coop and steals twenty chickens.
On Sunday, the same hyena turns up at church carrying two.
“Pastor, I felt led to support the Lord’s work.”
The pastor smiles.
The elder says, “Amen!”
The treasurer issues a receipt.
Someone calls the hyena a “generous community partner.”
Meanwhile, somewhere in the village, a farmer is still looking for eighteen chickens.
Now, to be fair, those two chickens can do some genuine good. They may feed hungry families. They may support a worthy cause.
But praying over them does not change where they came from.
The offering plate has been turned into a washing machine. But again the question is not whether the church can do good with the hyena’s two chickens.
The question for the church is whether, after enjoying the chicken stew, can it still ask about the the farmer who lost his chickens.
Because the day the hyena discovers that two donated chickens can silence questions about eighteen stolen ones, it has learned a very profitable lesson:
You don’t have to stop raiding the village. You just have to share enough of the loot with those who might speak against you.
So, the donation is not about what the chicken stew can do for the church.
But what chickens stew can do to the church.
Selah 😎
(Shared with permission)
Happy Sabbath.