Smart Compassion: How to Stop "Doing Outreach" and Start Making Change

Smart Compassion calls Christians to strategic, prayerful, and biblically based approaches to compassion. With evangelical Anabaptist convictions and insights from psychology, Furlong uses his background as a church leader and nonprofit founder to guide readers through the three aspects of smart compassion needed for families and neighborhoods to flourish: collective empowerment, radical hospitality, and healing presence. Discover wise strategies that bring Jesus' love to your neighbors. Shift your paradigm from fixing everybody's problems to spending yourself well. Learn how to hold together justice and evangelism, worldly wisdom and divine revelation, action and prayer. For anyone who wants to make a difference but doesn't know how, this book offers a contagious vision and practical steps for real change. Paperback. Herald Press/Mennonite Media, 2017. 173 pages.