Dr. John A. King argues that helping everyone can be disobedience to Scripture. The Bible restricts assistance to particular categories of people, and genuine help differs from enabling behavior that harms both parties. Christians aren't obligated to support every person's spiritual growth.
And that can put you, you personally, in disobedience to the word of God and even in danger of engaging activities and is detrimental to them. So the second big thought is not all people are good people for you, and you're not actually responsible for their spiritual growth and development. You're just responsible for what you are called to be able to do and to do the best you can. So if I told you that God commands us not to help certain kinds of people, would you believe it? We're constantly given the impression as Christians that we must help everybody and say yes to every request and to anyone in need. But when you actually read the word, you discover something surprising. God does not approve of that kind of help. In fact, there are certain sorts of people that we shouldn't help. Um, you're actually disobeying the word if you engaged in helping these people. So the 3rd big thought to start with is there's a difference between help and enabling.
