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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

By a biased interpretation of this constitutional amendment the Supreme Court established discrimination against Christian Charitable Service. No Gospel oriented charitable service receives the same resources available to every 501C3 non-profit organization. Most Christians live unaware of this discrimination, it rarely makes news, it does not effect our middle class churches, so we accept this overt discrimination without much thought. The genesis of this discrimination also eludes many of us, but thanks to Google we find that the Court took an opportunity to exact their values, impose them, and change charity in our nation. A cursory study of separation of church and state leads us to the Everson case in 1947 about reimbursement of finance for bus fare. Wherein a family sought reimbursement for bus fare for the children’s rides to a private Christian school. Like many cases which change our world this one is rot with complexity and a misguided attack against the conscience of Christianity. The court in my opinion took a simple case and extrapolated it to create an atmosphere of legal discrimination and segregation against Christians. Whatever spirit led them to their conclusions, they recreated a nation’s law so that evangelizing Christians could not receive equal consideration for assistance in their work. The work of charitable organizations stand split between those who promote worldly values or compromise Christian values and those who serve God above all earthly power and know that His Gospel is the greatest help we have to offer. The split creates a very uneven pool of resources. Those secularized charities, who will compromise in adherence to the liberal view of the Supreme Court, have all the coffers of government, business, and the Church at their disposal. While evangelizing charities, those who hold to their faith and call before God, find all the government coffers and most of the business world’s coffers closed to them. On top of which much of the present day church often split their resources between the secularized charities and evangelizing charities.

Our secularized society embraces secularized charity, but oddly the Church often does not equally embrace evangelizing charities. Most people who understand the changes that brought us to our present segregated state are older members of the church. I am concerned that we have not done a proper job of teaching our young people about the importance of evangelism mixed with charitable action. Possibly because even many of our leaders do not see the importance of evangelizing as we work in the world. I offer four reasons why we should practice evangelism as we practice loving action or compassion. (Scripture would give us many more than four, but for brevity I will give only four.)

In conclusion our government discriminates against Christian compassion. There follows an unfair distribution of resources, which favors secular charity and the secular message that follows. Furthermore, Christians live unaware of the disparity and send resources to secularizes charities. So the problems of poverty becomes more and more a problem only addressed by secular means. We live among the poor and watch secular institutions grow from grants, government funding, and the support of businesses and churches. Because of the Supreme Court we only have the Church as our means of support. All we have to do to get secular resources is separate our tutoring program, food program, and youth programs from the Gospel. Anathema!

No other group in humanity possess the call and ability to evangelize.