wow, what insight

"Our primary emphasis needs to be feeding people, educating children and looking for healthcare for everybody,"

Who said it? “Compassionate Conservative” President George Bush? Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton? No, actually it was Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, newly elected head of the Episcopal Church USA.

This is the priority of a group of Christian churches?? If this sounds like a political answer to top priorities, you would be correct. Other than the war in Iraq and illegal immigration, these issues are at the forefront of the next election cycle. Nothing here about “reaching people with the saving message of the availability of the Kingdom of God,” or “Reaching people for Jesus,” or “Evangelism,” etc.

I am all for feeding people, educating children and making sure people have the opportunity to have adequate health care. The details of the how best to do this are what is hugely important here. I don’t know if any Church body has the market cornered on implementation.

Bishop Schori, what do you mean by:

Feeding people?
Educating children?
Looking for health care?

To see the challenge of this kind of priority list, consider the opposite. Who do you know who is:

-Seeking to make sure people don’t get fed?
­-Seeking to make sure children are not educated?
-Seeking to make it harder for people to receive healthcare?

Yes, that would be nonsense.