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Questions for the Week: 

• What is your favorite part about church/worship? 
• How do I talk about being a Christian? What are things to keep in mind when explaining and describing my faith? 

Special Guest: 
Alonzo Johnson, Coordinator for the Presbyterian Committee on Self Development of People 

Guest Question: 

• The local churches in my community do a lot to address issues of poverty in our: homeless shelters, food pantries, soup kitchens, and clothing drives. But I feel like we aren’t addressing root causes of why people need these services in the first place. How do we move from providing temporary relief to addressing root causes of poverty? What more can we do?

Resource Roundup:

1. The 220th General Assembly (2012) policy statement “World of Hurt, Word of Life: Renewing God’s Communion in the Work of Economic Reconstruction,”
2. The Problem of Wealth: A Christian Response to a Culture of Affluence by Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty
3. Always With Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor by Liz Theoharis
4. Toxic Charity by Robert Lupton

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