I think in general the church does not do enough to help those who are lost and hurting, those who are hungry and dying, those who need earthly things to continue. One of the biggest reasons I have heard and always made a bit of sense to me was we need to be careful not to give handouts to people who have ruined their own life and people who will not act responsible with what we give them. While I do believe there is a small kernel of truth in there I do believe for the most part we have missed something huge and something Francis Chan said completely blew me away and I think really set me straight on some incorrect thinking.
This is not an exact quote but he said something to this effect: We need to accept/help/love people who have ruined their own life people who put themselves in troubled places and people who have tried to recover and failed again and again, because that is who we are to God. We may have our cute little life in order but we sinned we ruined our life we deserve hell but God stepped in and gave away everything so that we would be saved, and now even with that forgiveness we continue to walk away and come back, we continue to sin and do wrong, yet God is always there ready to take us back into his arms of forgiveness.
Think about this, He gave his all to save us even though we continue to fail him, most of us are not even willing to give change to someone we don’t think deserves it, we have been called by someone who is greater to do something far greater. We must love the unlovable, feed and clothe the undeserving then and only then will we begin to look like Christ as he calls us to walk in his steps.