Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself: Called, Equipped, Sent

Description

Learn more about the causes and effects of poverty, and find out why helping those who need it most is at the heart of the Christian faith.

Those who are of the Christian faith know that the “greatest commandment” in the Bible is to love your neighbor as yourself and to love God. But what does “loving your neighbor” really mean?

A new book, Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself: Called, Equipped, Sent by Ruby K. Payne and Vern Reed, ties the ideas found in aha! Process’s well-known Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World and Bridges Out of Poverty programs with the Christian faith.

Key points in the book include:

• The Bible’s teachings about orphans and widows
• How mental models both help and hurt us
• The importance of knowing the unspoken cues and habits of different economic groups
• Resources, or the lack thereof
• Why truly loving one’s neighbor cannot happen without relationships
• How to apply the learning at your church

Ruby K. Payne is founder and CEO of aha! Process. Vern Reed is a retired educator and former youth pastor who has experience working with at-risk youth.

Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself offers practical opportunities for the church to experience meaningful impact through a kingdom-agenda approach. This book humbly speaks into and guides the work of who, what, when, why, and how to engage in impactful ministry with the least of these. —Jo Lynn Bright, director of community impact, HopeNet, Wichita, KS