Glutton-Free: Cultivating a Theology of Enough
Part 7: Modern Prophets
In his bestselling book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, Ronald J. Sider shows how we, unfortunately, are part of the worldwide poverty problem:
“More than two hundred million U.S. citizens were consuming enough food (partly because of high consumption of grain-fed livestock) to feed more than one billion people in the poor countries.” (Loc 795-803).
Did you get that? One billion people could be fed with the same amount of food that only 200 million people eat!
Sider concludes, “What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!” (Sider. Loc 558-563).
David Platt is another modern prophet for the poor. In Radical he reminds us:
“Today more than a billion people in the world live and die in desperate poverty. They attempt to survive on less than a dollar per day. Close to two billion others live on less than two dollars per day. That's nearly half the world struggling today to find food, water, and shelter with the same amount of money I spend on french fries for lunch.” (Platt. Pg 108).
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