Redemptive Poverty Work Student Workbook

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• Uncommon Church: Community Transformation for the Common Good – Foreword by Efrem Smith – Chapter 3: Jesus Did, Not Jesus Would: Jesus and the Condition of Poverty – Chapter 6: Faith and Works: Eliminating the Tension Between Evangelism and Justice Summarize each book reading with no more than a paragraph or two per summary. In this summary, please give your best understanding of what you think was the main point in the reading. Do not be overly concerned about giving detail; simply write out what you consider to be the main point discussed in that chapter of the book. Use the Reading Completion form. Submit a Reading Completion Sheet for readings for each book (if you are completing this course in World Impact U, use the “Submit Assignments” green bar at the top of any page in your Redemptive Poverty Work course in WIU). Case Study A young urban minister who oversees training volunteers for a tutoring program for a school in an impoverished neighborhood has come to you for advice. Her job is to give an orientation before the volunteers are assigned kids to work with. She has found that she consistently runs into a problem. In every orientation a debate breaks out among the new volunteers concerning the causes of poverty. One group argues that people are poor because they made bad choices in their lives. The others argue that people are poor because of economic injustice. Rarely does either group cite Scripture to back up their arguments. What is your advice to her?

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