In his book, The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey tells of a man who was working in an inner city who encountered a woman who had been a prostitute. She was in poor physical shape, homeless and unable to buy food for her two-year-old daughter. The Christian worker asked her if she had thought about reaching out to the church to help. "Church!" she said, "Why would I ever go there? They'd just make me feel even worse than I already do!"
