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Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.  -Proverbs 31:8-9

If we are to advocate and speak up, we have to know what we’re talking about. More importantly, we have to know WHO we are talking about.

The average American -and maybe average American Christian- sees the global poor as lazy, uneducated, backwards, uncivilized, unreliable, dependent on everyone else, unwilling to change, corrupt, weak…

Why do we hold these prejudices? I think we hold these prejudices to justify our own inaction, our own place at the front of the line, our own wealth, and really we justify these because we dont know the poor. We know about them, but we don’t know them…

You and I are so dangerously close to a subtle dehumanization of the poor. I have thought and wrestled with this… It is the only explaination why men and women of faith with resource to spare allow such inequity to exist.

And other wonderfully loving compassion and action from Andrew Syed can be heard here.

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