Smart Compassion: How to Stop "Doing Outreach" and Start Making Change - Softcover

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<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’t know how, <i>Smart Compassion</i> offers a contagious vision and practical steps for real change.</p>

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