This passage is not about the poor, and especially not the poor outside of the church. Paul makes it super simple and clear here in this passage; those who needed to be refused assistance were those within the body who chose to be περιεργαζομένους. Often translated in English to busybody, periergazomai means someone who unnecessarily intrudes on others to prevent work from happening, and particularly someone who meddles in others' lives intrusively. THIS person is who Paul is

We have talked a lot recently about the current time we are in, and how seemingly fast and sudden these cultural and sociological shifts are taking place. As I am writing this, the status of most of the country's nearly 42 million SNAP recipients is waiting to find out if their funds will continue in the next 24 hours. It has caused a wide variety of responses from a wide variety of people. The responses to this current SNAP situation provide us with a clear example of how th