Here is email I received today ...
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Dear Servants of God,Joan
Much greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you for the wonderful work of God you are doing.I thank God who has made us to know each other through the internet.We Pray and request you to share the biblical truth God is sharing with you in your Ministry.We are a small church here in Kenya and we will request you to uphold us in your prayers God to help us and have Holy Bibles to use in our church and for evangelism.
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My response
Dear Pastor ... We would be happy to hear anything you hear from Spirit of God.
When we say, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."
And we trust in God for all our needs. We should not then go about
asking other humans to provide our needs as you have done in your email
by asking us for Bibles. This is wrong to do. I caution you to make
this correction. If you are of God and praying to God and trusting God
to supply your needs then it is wrong to turn to humans asking the
human to supply your need as you did in this email. Correct yourself
and stop doing this. Either trust in God or trust in man but you cannot
be double minded this way. A double minded man will receive nothing
from the Lord. James 1
Joan
II Thess. 3:10 ... For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
An able bodied man should work and buy his own food ... also he should buy his own Bible rather than having everything given to him.
And if a minister is trying to provide Bibles and cannot do so this should prove he is going the wrong way. And when he begins to ask other humans to buy those things he cannot provide, he should see he is going wrong way.
If God provides all our need, and we think we have need, then we need to examine our works for likely our works are not authored by God even in giving of free Bibles.
Sometimes ministers give free things as a lure ... like they are fishing and trying to catch a fish. This will not work.