Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself, Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2009
우리의 동기를 깊숙히 살피지 않는다면 우리가 주려는 도움은 그들에게 도리어 해가 될 수 있다. 우리는 우리 자신이 하나님처럼 중요한 존재가 되려 하거나 성취를 지향할 때, 우리가 도우려는 사람들을 대상화시키고 도구화할 수 있다. 우리의 잘못된 신학을 돌아보고 회개해야 한다.
What truly motivates you? Do you really love poor people and want to serve them? Or do you have other motives? I confess to you that part of what motivates me to help the poor is my felt need to accomplish something worthwhile with my life, to be a person of significance, to feel like I have pursued a noble cause… to be a bit like God…. And in the process, I sometimes unintentionally reduce poor people to objects that I use to fulfill my own need to accomplish something. It is very ugly truth, and it pains me to admit it, but “when I want to do good, evil is right there with me” (Rom. 7:21). (65)
…one of the biggest problems in many poverty-alleviation efforts is that their design and implementation exacerbates the poverty of being of the economically rich – their god-complexes-and the poverty of being of the economically poor – their feelings of inferiority and shame. (65)
Our efforts to help the poor can hurt both them and ourselves. (67)
Repenting of the Health and Wealth Gospel: the first step in overcoming our god-complexes is to repent of the health and wealth gospel. (69)
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