The Church’s choice: Protect property or use property to protect people?

Robert Lupton, in Theirs Is The Kingdom:

Somewhere on the way to becoming rich we picked up the idea that preserving our property is preferable to expending it for the people. Why should it be so difficult to decide which is wiser: to open the church for the homeless to rest or to install an electronic alarm system to preserve its beauty?

Thanks for the reminder of this quote, Jessica.