they are restored to full human flourishing: He wants them to serve as priest-kings who enjoy proper relationships with God, self, others, and the rest of creation.

First, material poverty alleviation involves more than ensuring that people have sufficient material things; rather, it involves the much harder task of empowering people to earn sufficient material things through their own labor, for in so doing we move people closer to being what God created them to be. (Of course, we recognize that this is impos