Smart Compassion

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781513800455

<DIV><P>When is doing good not good enough? When does &ldquo;doing outreach&rdquo; actually do harm?</P><P><I>Smart Compassion</I> calls Christians to strategic, prayerful, and biblically based approaches to compassion. With evangelical Anabaptist convictions and insights from psychology, Wesley Furlong uses his background as a church leader and nonprofit founder to guide readers through the three aspects of smart compassion needed for families and neighborhoods to flourish: collective empowerment, radical hospitality, and healing presence. In the vein of <I>When Helping Hurts</I>, discover wise strategies that bring Jesus&rsquo; love to your neighbors. Shift your paradigm from fixing everybody&rsquo;s problems to spending yourself well. Learn how to hold together justice and evangelism, worldly wisdom and divine revelation, action and prayer.</P><P>For anyone who wants to make a difference but doesn&rsquo;t know how, <I>Smart Compassion</I> offers a contagious vision and practical steps for real change.</P></DIV>