tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825511530912388870.post434785674368153808..comments2023-12-05T23:27:05.687-05:00Comments on Wirelesshogan: Reflections from the Hogan: A Biblical Response to PovertyMark Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04210437745178979457noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825511530912388870.post-65642978532437671772013-02-14T19:23:59.824-05:002013-02-14T19:23:59.824-05:00I was fascinated by your finishing sentences, but ...I was fascinated by your finishing sentences, but I still wonder. I recently became a "fadder", in Swedish: It means I guarantee I will send 200 SEK every month to see a girl in Africa or Asia through school. I'm not rich, nor even middle class, but if I were to be really poor - how then could I help her? And what is the defenition of poor? If I can choose it, it means I already have the power to escape it. That's not poverty. Poverty is, as you so well put it, not being able too choose. http://www.actionaid.se/Maria Ordingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825511530912388870.post-90736411556130080692013-02-12T12:15:54.387-05:002013-02-12T12:15:54.387-05:00Being a joint heir with Christ renders the word &q...Being a joint heir with Christ renders the word "poverty" as moot. The word indicates a diminished level of something, but when you have eternal life I cannot imagine what can diminish that. That is why God has chosen the poor rich in faith, and that is why we as believers must reach out to the earthly poor in order to create a bridge to the eternal One.Rick Fruehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05879848568892457571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825511530912388870.post-86358014121568963702013-02-12T08:38:50.435-05:002013-02-12T08:38:50.435-05:00Proverbs 30:8,9 "Remove me from vanity and li...Proverbs 30:8,9 "Remove me from vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with the food convenient for me: lest i be full and deny thee, and say, who is the Lord? Or lest i be poor, and steel, and take the name of my God in vain."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15725938496960658730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825511530912388870.post-10866077691296302362013-02-11T10:41:02.795-05:002013-02-11T10:41:02.795-05:00I see what you are saying, but I wonder about it. ...I see what you are saying, but I wonder about it. If the only means for truly empathizing and offering hope in Christ is to live into the other person's experience, then we are limited in offering hope. My experience will never be the same as yours. Even if I choose to enter into poverty giving up what few options I have, it will still never be the same. Moreover, if this is the only means for offering hope in Christ, then how can I offer hope in Christ to my friend who lost his child to suicide, or the young woman who has been repeatedly raped by her father, or the middle-aged man who struggles with his sexual identity? I cannot adequately live into those experiences, yet I believe that in Christ I can seek to understand and still offer hope.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06282060546539360976noreply@blogger.com