Giving

The true meaning of giving – charity – is solidarity. We are in solidarity with the poor when we recognize how we are all interrelated. What we have is related to what the poor do not have. We must give of who we are and all we have, not of what we have left over. We are in solidarity with the poor when we risk our material and social privileges so that poverty, living on one dollar a day, can be eradicated. Solidarity – giving – is living simply: opposing consumerism, not turning wants into needs, living with less comfort so the poor can simply live. -Wesley Study Bible pg 1169