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What Every Church Member Should Know about Poverty
by Bill Ehlig; Ruby K. Payne
from aha! Process, Inc.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Made me think
  This is an excellent book for study. A possible update should follow but you can work that out in discussions.

• A must read for the Christian leader
  I was reading this book up to the late hours. It began to shed some light on things the church needs to understand when dealing with people from different classes whether upper or lower classes. It is intesting to see what the Bible says about people who are ecomonically rich and those who are poor. I bought three more books for my fellow Christian co-workers so we can create a dialogue and deal with our inner perjudices. I am more aware.

• Great Book
  This is definitely a must-read for anyone who is in ministry and wants to reach out to those in poverty. One of the other reviewers mentioned that the book doesn't have much in-depth information but I think that is what makes it such a great book. It is a quick read for someone who simply wants a better understanding of how to relate to those in poverty. It opened my eyes to see the learned behaviors and the knowledge that I take for granted - things that I assumed everyone knew. For being such a short book... more info

• Ruby Payne's first book is better
  This book is too simplistic and not as informative as Ms. Payne's 1990's amazing book entitled A Framework for Understanding Poverty which was directed toward educators. There isn't much additional helpful material here except for slanting the information toward middle class church member awareness of the generational poverty mindset in the U.S.

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