Shortcuts Can’t Fix the Human Heart (And Poverty)

What is the solution? I once asked the former head of a major Christian relief and development organization what he had learned in his decades of experience in the field of poverty alleviation. …he said, at the foundation of a community are human beings, and the fulcrum of the human being is the human heart. Unfortunately, we keep on trying shortcuts.

We rush in with all sorts of buildings and programs, but unless the people’s hearts are properly oriented, we are just building on sinking sand. There simply are no shortcuts. There is no other way. The human heart is the foundation of…