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37 - Helping The Poor Takes Much More Than Donations | Brian Fikkert
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If you are giving money or material resources to the poor, you are helping them overcome their problems in life, right? Perhaps, but maybe not, inevitably. Donating money, clothes, food and other materials does help the poor and needy but have we ever paused and asked them how our help truly affects them? For all we know, our efforts to help may have unintentionally done more harm than good.
Our guest today shows us a different perspective on helping the poor. Dr. Brian Fikkert of the Chalmers Center challenges us to veer away from considering the poor as problems to solve and projects to fix and instead see the dignity in everyone and understand people’s highly relational nature with fully integrated body and soul all reconciling to God. He dares us to ask questions that will help us understand how to extend genuine help and compassion that creates a long-lasting impact. Start listening now and learn better ways to help the poor.
Key Points From This Episode:
- The highlight of Brian’s week
- Brian’s backstory
- How does Brian define poverty and what are the proper strategies to alleviate it?
- Why people who want to alleviate poverty should understand that people are highly relational beings and body-soul integrated.
- The four intertwined relationships in a person’s life - God, self, others and creation.
- Brian’s advice for church planters in low-income communities.
- What is God’s framework for change that ministries and community development workers must adopt to attain genuine human flourishing?
- Brian answers the mentor-minute questions.
Tweetables:
“We tend to define poverty as a lack of material things so as a result, our solutions for the poor tend towards material things.”
“The human being isn't just a body and we're not just a body that holds a soul. We're highly integrated body-soul relational things, and that really shapes every intervention we should use with the poor.”
“The foundation for helping the poor might be a shared meal once a week. Building a community is central to poverty alleviation.”
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Send an email to Brian Fikkert
When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development by Bryant Myers
You're Only Human by Kelly Kapic
About Dr. Brian Fikkert
Dr. Brian Fikkert is a professor of economics and the founder and president of the Chalmers Center at Covenant College. Dr. Fikkert earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University, specializing in international economics and economic development. He has been a consultant to the World Bank; he is the author of numerous articles in both academic and popular journals and co-author of five books. Prior to coming to Covenant College, he was a professor at the University of Maryland—College Park and a research fellow at the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector.
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