Make Poverty Personal by Ash Barker is an absolutely critical read. This became real to me when it was sitting on my desk and somebody walked in, saw it, and said, ‘That’s your problem. You think about the poor too much.’ First, I didn’t know I had a problem. And second, I feel compelled to live like Jesus did – at the intersection of community and compassion. By following the arc of the Biblical narrative, from Exodus to Eschaton, Barker leads a sweeping expedition that will inspire and challenge. In addition to the sound Biblical exposition, Barker’s personal experience and deep conviction appear on every page. He is not an academic speaking from a distance; but he and his family have served the poor with their very lives. He is not only responding to urgent and overwhelming needs; he’s thinking about what the Bible really has to say.
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