How to Get Mercy Ministry Off-Track in Fifteen Easy Steps
1. Participate just to assuage guilty feelings for being rich or white or suburban or whatever.
2. Feel superior to those who aren’t as involved as you are.
3. Pursue too many good ideas at the same time.
4. Love the “poor,” but not poor people.
5. Turn everything back into a discussion about politics.
6. Forget to pray.
7. Make evangelism and discipleship an afterthought (or worse, a never-thought).
8. Read books, complain, talk about stuff and never do anything.
9. Launch into a ministry program or ministry model that isn’t sustainable.
10. Rally the troops with guilt and shame.
11. Idolize the poor.
12. Demonize the poor.
13. Do everything for the people you are trying to help.
14. Believe that every problem can be solved by simple charity.
15. Be blind to your own poverty and need for mercy.
- Kevin DeYoung
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