Remember the Poor

I just read this from David Ruis, church planter, author of one of my favorite songs "Let the River Flow".

Cutting Edge, Winter 2003 - Vol 7, #1

I distinctly remember sitting in my study, surrounded by books, videos, seminars, Fuller church growth courses and demo-graphic studies—up to my eyeballs in church planting material. I had just finished reading Galatians 2:10, where Paul and Barnabas were being sent out from Jerusalem as the very first church planters in the history of the church. The only requirement from James, John and Peter was that they "not forget the poor." And it just hit me between the eyes—I remember thinking, "In all my years of study and a degree in theology, nobody had ever given me that piece of advice." And yet here in Scripture, it was the only requirement of the very first church planters in the history of the church was to remember the poor.