
How Can We Best Love the Poor?

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"The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.” Psalm 90:10
So straighten your back. Open your eyes. Brace your shoulders. And cry our, “I will not waste it!”
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Our goal is to make disciples and equip the local church to grow and multiply.
We do this by sharing the hope of Christ in word and deed.
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Dave and Stacey Hare met at The Master’s College (now The Master’s University) in Santa Clarita, CA. They then went on to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY where they each received their MDivs. Also in Louisville, they adopted four kids from Ethiopia. Their first term on the field they spent learning French and Kwakum. For their first home assignment they each received a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics, Bible Translation from the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (now Dallas International University). They currently live in Cameroon, Africa where they serve as Linguists/Bible Translators among the Kwakum (aka Bakoum) people.
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Wonderful wrestling with a powerful topic, taking us back to the Gospel. Your story of Simon is powerful. Thanks. It's a reminder, too, of all the American values that we tend to mix in with the pure Gospel.
Wow!! Thank you for sharing and the reminder!!!
Brought me to tears. Thank you for your heart for God and those He has placed in your lives.
Amen! ( Janet W.)
Excellent.
Perhaps a little bit of bread and fish along with the gospel. 6 "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? 8 Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. 9 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, 10 if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.
Great insight. Sharing in his trials, sitting in his home, celebrating his seemingly insignificant accomplishments….that's sharing the great wealth of the gospel. Thanks.
Your wrestlings are a probing reminder of biblical truth, and cause me to question my own actions and motives. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for laboring.
Definitely. We cannot fill all of the needs we see around us, but men like Simon are high on the priority list for receiving physical aid. We give him food fairly regularly, and things like batteries for his flashlights, and share our water with him. Stacey's point was not that we DO NOT give physical aid, just that it is second in priority.
Totally understand this as we just finished serving for 3+ years in another developing country. This was my greatest struggle from day to day. After reading this to my husband, he commented: "We do need to carefully consider the amount and manner in which we give them aid, otherwise they are drawn to the gift ra her than the Awesome Giver of those gifts." You are right – the saving gospel of Jesus Christ must be first priority in our ministries!