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Books on Biblical Justice When Helping Hurts Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert Generous Justice Timothy Keller Evil and the Justice of God NT Wright

C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors."

World Bank Research on Poverty

Isaiah 58:6-9 (MSG) This is the kind of fast day I'm after: to break the chains of injustice, get rid of exploitation in the workplace, free the oppressed, cancel debts. What I'm interested in seeing you do is: sharing your food with the hungry, inviting the homeless poor into your homes,

putting clothes on the shivering ill- clad, being available to your own families. Do this and the lights will turn on, and your lives will turn around at once. Your righteousness will pave your way. The God of glory will secure your passage. Then when you pray, God will answer. You'll call out for help and I'll say, 'Here I am.' Isaiah 58:6-9 (MSG)

Poverty Is Rooted In Broken Relationships Evil Seeks to Destroy Relationships therefore

Poverty Is Rooted In Broken Relationships Relationship With God

Genesis 3:8 (NIV) Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God

Poverty Is Rooted In Broken Relationships Relationship With God Relationship With Self

Genesis 1:27 (NIV) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Poverty Is Rooted In Broken Relationships Relationship With God Relationship With Self Relationship With Others

Genesis 2:18 (NIV) The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone.

Poverty Is Rooted In Broken Relationships Relationship With God Relationship With Self Relationship With Others Relationship With Creation

Genesis 1:28-29 (NIV) God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. Genesis 1:28-29 (NIV)

Micah 6:8 (NIV) He has showed you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Mercy God’s unconditional grace and compassion

Justice To treat people equitably

Poverty Is Rooted In Broken Relationships Relationship With God Relationship With Self Relationship With Others Relationship With Creation

Righteousness = tzadeqah Right with God and therefore committed to putting right all other relationships in life.

Two Types of Justice Rectifying Justice Primary Justice

Psalm 33:5 (NIV) The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.

Matthew 5:17 (NIV) For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 6:33 (NIV) But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness (justice, equity), and all these things will be given to you as well.

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