OptionforPoor

"The chief purpose of the Christian Church in the past has been the salvation of individuals. But the most pressing task of the present is not individualistic. Our business is to make over an antiquated and immoral economic system...."

-- Walter Rauschenbusch

Option for the Poor

Life, Death, the Cross & the Preferential Option for the Poor

Elucidates the meaning of the phrase “preferential option for the poor” from a spiritual as well as a socio-economic perspective.

Shares the speaker's personal experience of how this concept has been a part of his life and the communities he has participated in.

Reveals how the preferential option for the poor relates to the very heart of the Gospel, i.e., what God has done for us in Christ, and defines the essential mission of the Church.”

Discusses how the preferential option for the poor might be implemented in and by a community and through such communities in the societies of our world.

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