Poverty is more than money -

Pastor Matthew Best
3 min readNov 11, 2020

Poverty comes in many different forms. It is certainly financial. But we can experience poverty in other ways too. There is moral poverty, theological poverty, political/ideological poverty, health poverty, educational poverty, relational poverty, purpose and meaning poverty, vision poverty, and more. Each of these is devastating to the person who is caught in them. And often that person doesn’t even realize they are caught up in a form of poverty. Or if they do know, they often don’t know what to do about it. Too often someone trapped in a form of poverty is too busy putting out fires and just trying to…

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Pastor Matthew Best

My name is Matthew Best. I’m an ELCA (Lutheran) pastor who attempts to translate church and churchy stuff into everyday language.