{"id":59679,"date":"2023-04-10T11:01:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=59679"},"modified":"2023-04-10T11:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:36:05","slug":"a-believers-response-to-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=59679","title":{"rendered":"A Believer\u2019s Response to Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This week the blog is sponsored by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshungerfund.org\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Children&#8217;s Hunger Fund<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em> (CHF), a nonprofit seeking to \u201cdeliver hope to suffering children by equipping local churches for gospel-centered mercy ministry.\u201d Serving in the United States and 29 other countries, CHF seeks to help the local church reach suffering children and families in their communities with both physical help and spiritual hope found only in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think a believer\u2019s response to poverty should be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is it to hand out cash to those asking for money outside the grocery store? Is it sponsoring a child in a faraway country\u2014a photo of them pinned to your fridge?<\/p>\n<p>In the Bible, we see God\u2019s love and care for the poor and suffering. In Psalms 146, the psalmist writes that the Lord who made heaven and earth is the One who \u201cexecutes justice for the oppressed and who gives food to the hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scripture is also clear that believers must share God\u2019s heart for the suffering and that we are to be generous (Luke 12:33), to love and care for the orphan and the widow (James 1:27), and to take up the plight of the suffering (Isaiah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the blog is sponsored by Children\u2019s Hunger Fund (CHF), a nonprofit seeking to \u201cdeliver hope to suffering children by equipping local churches for gospel-centered mercy ministry.\u201d Serving in the United States and 29 other countries, CHF seeks to help the local church reach suffering children and families in their communities with both physical help and spiritual hope found only in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What do you think a believer\u2019s response to poverty should be? Is it \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":59682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-59679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-sponsored","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2023_MKT_Challies-Project_Blog-Header-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59684,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59679\/revisions\/59684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}