Could We Abolish Poverty?
Two classes think too much about money - those who have too much and those who have too little. I want just enough money so I can forget about it and think about the Kingdom... Every person has a right to as much of the material things as will make him mentally and spiritually and physically fit for the purposes of the kingdom of God. The rest belongs to the needs of others...
Good news to the poor would mean that poverty should be abolished, that there should be no poor. We could abolish poverty in one generation if we had the will to do it. We have the means and the pressing necessity. What we lack is the will.
- E. Stanley Jones, The Unshakable Kingdom and The Unchanging Person
Good news to the poor would mean that poverty should be abolished, that there should be no poor. We could abolish poverty in one generation if we had the will to do it. We have the means and the pressing necessity. What we lack is the will.
- E. Stanley Jones, The Unshakable Kingdom and The Unchanging Person
posted by Bob | 6:57 PM
1 Comments:
Jesus--
"The poor will always be among you"
Not that we shouldn't help, . . quite the opposite, but we need to deliniate between homelessness and extreme poverty of the kind found in the Sudan, Kenya, etc. . . I agree with Bono that extreme poverty of this kind can and should be abolished.
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