So after 25 years of car and house insurance with State Farm, I now need to look for a new insurance company! I am having a hard time understanding just how they can simply decide to quit covering the homes that they have in Florida. Equally ridiculous is their commercial that says even though we are dropping your house just keep paying us for your car and by the way why not give us your money to invest.
This whole thing is another reminder that "Service Organizations" are not really service oriented they are profit oriented. I suppose that you can not expect a corporation to continue to do business at a loss, but then they should not be able to do business based on the idea that "You've Got A Friend" this is not something that a friend would do!
All of these thoughts came to me yesterday as I prepared for my Crossways Class where we were discussing the fact that Jesus came as the "Cornerstone" and his pattern of living as a servant to all was a model for us as followers of Christ. No wonder the world has a hard time understanding the actions of Christ Followers as they live to serve those around them and consider the needs of others as more important than their own. Even our "Service Organizations" do not operate in that way.
Christ calls us to see the world differently and to act differently. This is confusing to us and to those around us. You can begin to see why in the early church they separated themselves from the world and tried to deal just with other believers. The Mennonite church has some of that as they don't do insurance but if someone loses a home or property they all simply get together and rebuild what they lost!! Now that is servant living!
Searching for new insurance for my house is going to bring up a raft of new problems and I will try and keep you informed as my frustration mounts.
In Christ,
Pastor Paul
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