Yeah, insulting the people you’d like to receive charity from isn’t likely going to win you a lot of friends, and neither is threating them with robbery. And I’m not saying that if they’re serious about their faith, they shouldn’t at least try and make an effort to have mercy on someone who acts like this anyways (Love your enemies and all that), but you have to at least be willing to recognize that this is perhaps THE single most difficult teaching in the Bible for most people to accept, and few ever reach that level of perfection in their faith, so you’re likely going to be waiting a very long time.
Yeah, insulting the people you’d like to receive charity from isn’t likely going to win you a lot of friends, and neither is threating them with robbery. And I’m not saying that if they’re serious about their faith, they shouldn’t at least try and make an effort to have mercy on someone who acts like this anyways (Love your enemies and all that), but you have to at least be willing to recognize that this is perhaps THE single most difficult teaching in the Bible for most people to accept, and few ever reach that level of perfection in their faith, so you’re likely going to be waiting a very long time.