How can stewardship help solve the problem of poverty in our community?

the federal government currently runs 70 means-tested programs providing aid to the poor, to the tune of about $700 billion per year. With the exception of one major program transformed in the 1996 welfare reform—Temporary Assistance to Needy Families—most have done little to help recipients escape poverty. Some contribute to a cycle of intergenerational dependence on welfare.

Do these advocates for the poor really want to protect this failed status quo? After all, God is also watching our stewardship.

Those who appeal to the Bible in this debate have more than one moral mandate to heed. As a new network called Christians for a Sustainable Economy (www.case4America.org) points out, the whole counsel of Scripture “urges not only compassion and provision for the poor but also the perils of debt and the importance of wise stewardship.”

On the moral measure of good stewardship, we fall far short.

Each American born today inherits a debt of $200,000 because of runaway federal spending —and no house to go with it. It is immoral to pass on such levels of indebtedness to those who come after us. We can and must find ways to serve the needs of the poor while ensuring the security of future generations.

“The Good Samaritan didn’t use a government credit card,” argues an ad countering Sojourners from the Values & Capitalism project of the American Enterprise Institute. “The question is not whether to care for the poor, but how?”

Regrettably, contends Christians for a Sustainable Economy, the well-intentioned efforts of some liberals give “a religious imprimatur for big government and sanctify federal welfare programs that are often ineffective—even counterproductive.”

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