9 No Poor Among Us?

Glutton-Free: Cultivating a Theology of Enough

Part 9: No Poor Among Us?

We need to follow the early church’s model where their redeemed economic relationships contributed to their evangelistic efforts. We need such a holistic strategy for fighting global poverty and spreading the gospel. 

 “Another team of analysts did some fairly sophisticated number crunching and determined that if all American Christians had given away just ten percent of their income after taxes, another $133 billion a year would have been freed up for whatever purposes people chose to use it, above and beyond all the ministry already going on. ... The World Summit on Food Security in Rome in 2009 determined that $24 billion per year, rightly directed, would end serious hunger problems due to lack of adequate food and that an additional $12 billion would address diseases due to chronic nutritional deficiencies. Thus, believers have the resources to alleviate enormous amounts of human suffering apart from relying either on the secular business world or the government. If the church had the will to do so, it could make a huge difference and make it clear to the world that its ministry was in Jesus’ name. Imagine how many more people would become Christ’s followers as a result.” 

Craig Blomberg in Christians in an Age of Wealth

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