There are also some reasons why not just Christians but other people would not do charity work and want to help the poor and needy in the third world. If you do not give to a registered charity then there is no guarantee that your money is going to someone that actually needs it, but many people would be clever enough to not make this mistake; but you do have to be careful with your money. Many people believe that people abroad should ask their government to help them and not to rely on us giving them aid, this however I feel is a very selfish view to take and is not the sort that a Christian would take, but a selfish person who wouldn’t want to help the poor and needy. Although some people who are not Christians and do not fully believe in God, may not think it is their duty to help the poor and needy, maybe because they like to rely on other people or they do not have the guidance of God and the guidance of the teachings and the bible that play such an important role and influence on Christians.
Most Christians will agree with the statement “Charity begins at home – do you agree?” as they take home as the whole world as God says “I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds and all of the wild animals. Subdue the earth and rule over every living creature” which basically means that he puts his faithful Christians in charge of the world as so therefore the world is their home. One of the main reasons that the Christians do want to help the less fortunate is that they have many teachings about helping the less fortunate, poor and needy. The bible also guides them into doing this, so they have many ways to be influenced.
Although you get the Christians who will agree with the statement “Charity begins at home – do you agree?” some Christians may not. This maybe because they are unsure of what if anything they are actually doing to help them and what is happening to the money they send to this charity. They may be selfish people, but this is a wrong Christian attitude and so I think they are more likely to be unsure of what to do and may want to make sure they are going to make a proper good difference for the long term in the third world than just send money over their for them to waste it on short term solutions that will not work as well.
Overall, I think that charity does begin at home; although my home would be the whole world. I feel that it is important to have a starting point in most things, I’m sure many people would but in the case of charity work you can start anywhere, whether it is just sending a donation over to a charity which helps and benefits the third world country, or whether you actually go out there and take proper action of helping the people by teaching them or building for them. I believe that the people in the third world, the poor and the needy need to rely on us to help them, they are not strong enough to rely on themselves and people who don’t realise that need to and help them themselves instead of being selfish and saying something like they should sort their own problems out, it has nothing to do with me. This is the wrong attitude to take, and in a serious situation like this you need to take the right actions and right attitude.
