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B. More resources on mission and the poor

1. From TUMI

a. “Christian Mission and the Poor” 6

b. “Jesus and the Poor,” in Foundations of Christian Mission 7

c. “On World Impact’s ‘Empowering the Urban Poor’” 8

d. “The Theology of the Poor for Church Planters” 9

e. “Upside down Ethics” ( Planting Churches among the City’s Poor: An Anthology of Urban Church Planting Resources , Vol. 1, p. 109)

2. Other resources

a. The poor in biblical theology: Craig Blomberg’s Neither Poverty Nor Riches 10

b. The poor in the Great Tradition. Tom Oden’s The Good Work’s Reader 11

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6 Don L. Davis, Focus on Reproduction , vol. 12, The Capstone Curriculum. Wichita, KS: The Urban Ministry Institute, 2005. pp. 175−226.

7 Ibid., 12:251−56.

8 Don Davis, “On World Impact’s ‘Empowering the Urban Poor,’” in Ripe for Harvest: A Guidebook for Planting Healthy Churches in the City , ed. Don Allsman, Don L. Davis, and Hank Voss. Wichita, KS: TUMI Press, 2015. pp. 195−200. 9 Terry Cornett, “The Theology of the Poor for Church Planters,” in Ripe for Harvest: A Guidebook for Planting Healthy Churches in the City , ed. Don Allsman, Don L. Davis, and Hank Voss. Wichita, KS: TUMI Press, 2015. pp. 155−168.

10 Craig Blomberg, Neither Poverty nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Material Possessions , NSBT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

11 Thomas C. Oden, The Good Works Reader. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.