Our Responsibility to the Poor
Let Justice Roll Down • Week 4
We have instruction directly from Jesus, and from the example of the early church, that caring for the poor is our responsibility. Despite this clear instruction, the majority of people feel that those in poverty are solely responsible for themselves, and less than 10% feel any personal responsibility at all. Adam Barnett wraps up our series with a reminder of the role we are called to fill as followers of Jesus.
MESSAGE NOTES
Our Responsibility to the Poor
Let Justice Roll Down | Week 4
May 2, 2021 | Adam Barnett
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Multidimensional Poverty: poor health, lack of health care, lack of education, unsafe living standards, limited access to food, poor quality of work, disempowerment, and the threat of violence.
“God is going to rewrite the narrative of the forgotten zip code, and it is going to become the favored zip code.” —Amy Wopsle
Galatians 2:1-2, 8-10 NIV
Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also. I went in response to a revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain.
For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles. James, Cephas and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.
Prayer → Perspective → Sacrificial Giving → Time → Advocacy