Across the country at the Parkrose Community United Church of Christ in Portland, Ore., the Rev. Chuck Currie has noticed that his congregation is rife with “fear and distrust of leaders.”
He tries to calm the flock by saying: “Ultimately, our hope rests with God.”
But, he adds, “economic problems are moral problems and how we respond speaks about our relationship with God and to the world.”
Parkrose is no megachurch. With 114 members, it’s a small house of worship in a modest neighborhood of low-income and elderly people. “We have a responsibility,” Currie says, “to care first for those Jesus called the ‘least of these’ in society: the poor, homeless, sick, children and the elderly.”
“…Economic problems are moral problems…”?? Let’s open a discussion on this one. I wonder how LeTernau, the well known name of a producer of farm machinery, would comment on this statement would be?? After all it has been reported he only donated ~ 90 percent of his income to worthy Christian causes.