The Greatest Commission

Article by Brian Swarts at NeueMinistry.com

World leaders met in New York last week to discuss the progress of global efforts to reduce poverty, hunger and disease. It was a reminder that even as Americans face financial turmoil there are millions of people around the world who face the life and death financial crisis of extreme poverty.

Just prior to these meetings, Micah Challenge USA publicly released a letter to “The Church in the United States,” written by senior evangelical leaders in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The letter challenges what the authors see as the lack of Christian protest against America’s failure to live up to its promises to fight global poverty. It is a prophetic call, from ministers on the front lines in the fight against poverty, for Americans to remember the poorest of the poor even as we face financial worries of our own...

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