{"id":5131,"date":"2014-02-15T06:55:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2014-02-12T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:01:09","slug":"when-you-see-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5131","title":{"rendered":"When you see poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Corbett, Steve, and Brian Fikkert. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R2TTNZI2VS3C2L\/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm\" target=\"_blank\"><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor&#8211; and yourself<\/i><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R2TTNZI2VS3C2L\/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a> Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2009.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Point: <strong>Helping those in financial difficulty can do more harm than good, for both the giver and the receiver. Here is how to be wise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">It would be worth another read and I would recommend it to someone:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>thinking about taking a short term missions trip<\/li>\n<li>helping in a soup kitchen<\/li>\n<li>thinking of working in the inner city<\/li>\n<li>who said, \u201cit\u2019s their own fault they\u2019re poor\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To see the full review, click on the title above. If the review is helpful, let me know with the voting options on the amazon.com page<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corbett, Steve, and Brian Fikkert. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor&#8211; and yourself. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2009.\u00a0 Point: Helping those in financial difficulty can do more harm than good, for both the giver and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-quite-a-review","category-wealth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-1kL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5132,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}