Let us briefly examine how becoming a new creature in Christ provides the foundation for all of us to live rightly in each of the four key relationships, paying particular attention to how this provides materially poor believers with a capacity they would not have otherwise.

The point here is not that outside resources are always a bad idea. Indeed, North American Christians need to be giving more, not less, money to help the poor. But how that money is given and to whom it is given is crucial.