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Subversive Influence » Doing Church the Warren Buffet Way
One of the overlooked pieces of news in the last week has been the teaming up of a couple of the world’s richest men in a massive philanthropic collaboration. Warren Buffet is donating over $30 billion of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help with health care in Africa and research. And Bill Gates is scaling back his commitments with Microsoft so he can devote more of his time to the charity. Between them, these two guys are spending more on charity than the foreign aid budgets of all bar six countries in the world! How awesome is that!
In the blog post link above, Brother Maynard discusses this story, and relates it to the work of the Kingdom which Jesus calls us to. I don’t know if these guys are Christians at all but it sure is a very Christian way to act. However, as usual, the religious right bring their negative condemnatory carping to the table, pouring cold water on a huge source of potential benefit to millions of people. I concur with Maynard’s critique of them. Read the article, and be inspired by Gates and Buffet, and consider how we might use our “fortunes” to similarly benefit others.
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