A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alle...

A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries

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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Kelly M. Kapic • A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries

How can we better practice this kingdom community in the space of poverty alleviation?

Kelly M. Kapic • A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries

it means moving away from the practices that Evangelical Gnosticism uses to help materially poor people: (1) Handouts + Evangelism or (2) Economic Empowerment + Evangelism.12

Kelly M. Kapic • A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries

Has your poverty alleviation ministry

Kelly M. Kapic • A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries

Relief

Kelly M. Kapic • A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries

It’s like finding a person in a whole, who is hurt and sick (starving)...and they are asking for help. And, you hand them some food.Great! But, was that helpful? How helpful?

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.