[Propertalk] Proclaim - Weekly Illustration - No Place for NIMBY

[Joe Parrish]

Weekly Illustration

An idea to serve as an example or spark an alternative sermon.




 
No Place for NIMBY
In one community, a social service agency had acquired a home on a residential street where they planned to house a few mentally impaired adults, who would be there with caregivers. They had selected people who could function in society and who were not a threat to anyone. Some of the neighbors objected, though, claiming fear for safety and loss of property value. Others, also in the neighborhood, felt that they should support the project, and not a few cited the Christian value of loving one's neighbor. The resulting argument was a bit of brouhaha, but the notion of NIMBY ... Not In My Back Yard ... was challenged by the Christian concept of what it means to be a neighbor and the realization that we cannot be Christians if we just look after ourselves. The great Russian Christian and writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, put it this way, “Mankind’s sole salvation lies in everybody making everything his business.” And that goes especially for Christians.
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