John Calvin, early Calvinist preacher, writing on collections for famine (2 Cor 8), says Jesus “consecrated” the estate of poverty by living in it. Thus: 1) We need not regard this estate with horror. 2) Free from fear of own poverty, may help those in distress.
Today, do we fear the very presence of people in distress, and thus cut people off from any tie of brotherhood?
How can you no longer regard poverty with horror?
Richard Salter Storrs was a Congregationalist minister in MA and NY. Here he says that Christianity drives sympathy, an utmost exertion to relieve suffering, enlighten the darkened, and lift the oppressed.
This movement saw social justice and evangelization as same thread. Today, too many view these as competing, or one must be subjugated to the other.
How can you exert to relieve physical and spiritual suffering?
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Greg Johnson