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C. Briggs

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Give more, but to ministries helping long-term.

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Reviewed: 12-11-22

This book is obviously teaching us how and why we must be wiser in our efforts to help those in poverty. But let me save you some time, money, and effort: the simple solution is to give whatever you can, of your heart, money, time, knowledge, and efforts, to ministries that are using proven methods that can be expected to have sustained results.

The book is helpful if you want to build your expertise in this, but I found the book to be intimidating to the average church-goer (if I fall into that category). I owned the book for years and only now made it past the first chapter, and that only because I found myself in contact with a desperate person in the midst of a "majority world" famine.

It is a well-written and useful book, but I think its very existence creates a problem without providing a solution. For me, the title is putting to words a feeling so many of us have had, then increasing the burden. Allow me put the burden to words: "your giving is probably making things worse, and now you must become an expert in establishing ministries and relationships that you have no experience with or access to." Does anybody else see that? That's why I tried to distill the contents of this book for anyone who isn't sure they would benefit from reading it: just focus on ministries that are providing help that lasts.

And give more. The authors said it a few times, but somehow churchgoers aren't getting the message. We are not our own.

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Excellent example for Americans to follow Christ

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Reviewed: 10-24-21

I love this book! It's hard to figure out how we're supposed to follow Jesus in this modern world. how do we sell our possessions? give to the poor? store up treasures in heaven? renounce everything and take up our cross? how do we lose our life that we may keep it? this was one life that really helps illustrate Jesus to the world, filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions. let us all turn and follow Jesus. otherwise we are condemned already.

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Speaks to everything I'm going through.

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Reviewed: 05-16-20

I've been falling in my sins long enough. I've been getting destroyed by them. When will I experience the promises of Christ? Have I actually believed? Have I actually surrendered? Have I been saved? This book is very encouraging, but since I just finished reading it, it may be some time before I've enjoyed the benefits discussed.

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