Open AccessChurch and Poverty
Author(s) -
Ana Lestari,
Urbanus Toher,
Sri Wahyuni,
David Ming
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of social science research and review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2700-2497
DOI - 10.47814/ijssrr.v5i4.211
Subject(s) - poverty , culture of poverty , transformational leadership , terminology , faith , basic needs , sociology , perception , environmental ethics , political science , epistemology , law , public relations , philosophy , linguistics
The way a person understands poverty and its causes tends to shape the way a person is how to expose it. Most governments and most institutions define poverty as a whole based on material terminology. If the perception of material used for the problem of poverty is a complete understanding, it is not surprising that the local church is not included. The Bible gives a different understanding of poverty, according to him the most fundamental cause of poverty is spiritual. Sin is that which corrupts and distorts relationships which in many ways creates various forms of human poverty in material, social and spiritual forms. Within this framework of understanding the church can be involved. There are seven things that can be done by the church to be involved in transformational development (leading transformational): serving the community; call people to faith; bring out students who are holistic; contributions to civil society; being a pastoral companion; be the voice of prophethood; provide alternative explanations