Скачать или смотреть The Role of Community A Biblical Framework for Shared Responsibility and Redemptive Care

Scripture never addresses poverty as an isolated or purely individual problem. From family and tribal obligations in Israel to the shared life of the early church, God consistently embeds care for the vulnerable within community structures, not private charity alone. This reveals that poverty is not merely about lacking resources, but about lacking relational covering, belonging, and shared responsibility.

This framework explores why isolation deepens poverty while community mitigates it. The Bible presents family, covenant, and church not as optional support systems, but as God’s primary means of provision, protection, and restoration. Mutual care is not an afterthought—it is a moral and spiritual expectation of belonging to God’s people.

By integrating biblical theology with psychological insight, this framework equips counselors, leaders, and faith communities to respond to poverty in ways that heal both material and relational wounds. It shifts care from transactional aid to shared life, revealing community itself as a redemptive structure through which dignity is restored, hope is sustained, and poverty loses its power to isolate.