Get angry about poverty. It's the Christian thing to do

Have Christians become so used to poverty that we’ve stopped being outraged by it? God hasn’t, says Natalie Williams, and it’s time we got in step with his heart

Poverty is evil. That might seem like a bold, uncomfortable statement, but it’s true. Poverty was never meant to exist – it’s one of the consequences of the Fall. When sin came into the world, evil was unleashed, bringing with it the potential for every kind of misery, pain and brokenness. If you look through the first few chapters of Genesis, you’ll find that it didn’t take long for violence, greed, famine, slavery and poverty to become a tragic reality, tainting the perfect world God had created and called “very good” (Genesis 1:31).