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It combines biblical exegesis with real frontline stories and practical guidance to reshape congregational practice. The book offers actionable strategies that better honor the dignity, agency, and hope of people in need, including long-term economic empowerment and support for micro-enterprise development, calling Christians to transformative love in word and deed.","PRAISE FOR WHEN HELPING HURTS  \nFor over fifteen years I’ve worked alongside other Christians in efforts to effectively address poverty at home and abroad. I can honestly report that When Helping Hurts is the single best book I’ve seen on this topic. While accessible to beginners, it is rich with insight for veterans, too. With solid biblical exegesis, engaging stories from the front lines, and practical, nononsense advice, Corbett and Fikkert offer essential wisdom desperately needed in today’s church. The book will make many readers uncomfortable:  \nit reveals the unhealthy and frankly unbiblical ways congregations have undertaken to help the poor in their local communities and abroad through short-term missions. But it quickly offers hope in the form of understandable, feasible new strategies that better grasp the dignity and promise of the materially poor. This book deserves a \\#1 spot on the reading list of every Christian who wants to follow Jesus in genuine, mutually transforming love of neighbor.  \n— AMY L. SHERMAN, PHD, Senior Fellow and Director, Sagamore Institute Center on Faith in Communities; author of Restorers of Hope  \nWhat an opportunity evangelicals have to make a difference in our world through the church as we move deeper into the third millennium! Corbett and Fikkert build on the growing momentum of holistic witness that’s sweeping our country and globe. Given their work nationally and internationally both personally and through the Chalmers Center, Corbett and Fikkert are eminently qualified and positioned to take motivated kingdom citizens on a Christ-centered and comprehensive journey that will pay huge dividends for impoverished people and for Christians in our broken world. When Helping Hurts will help the hurting—and us as well.  \n— DR. RONALD J. SIDER, President, Evangelicals for Social Action Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry, and Public Policy; Palmer  \nTheological Seminary; author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger  \nFrom the early pages, where the authors promptly and humbly confess how they have “messed up” in their own efforts to alleviate poverty, to the last chapters where their vast experience and on-the-street wisdom show through so helpfully, this is a book that wonderfully combines heavy-duty thinking with practical tools. As a journalist, I appreciate the authors’storytelling and descriptive abilities. As a churchman, I appreciate their zeal to root all strategies in the institution God has ordained to bring about His goals. No donor should invest another dollar in any kind of relief effort before digesting the last page of this important book.  \n—JOEL BELZ, Founder and writer, World magazine  \nSteve Corbett and Brian Fikkert are zealous to make sure that we honor the gospel not only in word but also in deed by caring for “the least of these” as Christ instructed. But how can a local church make a difference, and how do individual Christians meaningfully reflect Christ’s grace, when the disparities of wealth and power in our world are so great? And how do we show material care without drifting into a social gospel devoid of spiritual priorities? When Helping Hurts explores biblical principles in terms of reallife situations to offer real help and grace-filled answers for such questions.  \n—DR. BRYAN CHAPELL, President, Covenant Theological Seminary Corbett and Fikkert fill some important gaps in our thinking and acting about poverty as Christians. Churches in North America will find this a helpful way to educate congregations and then motivate them to action, both globally and in their neighborhoods. A biblical framework for thinking about poverty is presented in an engaging way. More importantly, the authors shift the conversation away from the needs of the poor to a call to build on what the poor already have—willing hearts and minds that just need an opportunity. The book closes with a compelling call to support ministries of micro-enterprise development.  \n— BRYANT L. 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