Helping Others

In the book, When Helping Hurts, it has been brought to my attention how often our efforts to help the poor often helps to keep the poor, poor. This is never intentional, but it is often like a doctor treating the result of a disease without ever treating the disease. So how do we help the poor. First we have to look beyond their immediate situation and see what is making them poor. Is it a lack of education? Maybe it is due to being a single parent or an abused spouse. Could it be the welfare system itself? These are the types of things that we must look at and then see where the church fits into this equation so it knows how to help. I am looking forward to reading the rest of this book in order to have a better understanding of this topic.