Some of these needs emanate from their personal sins; some result from unjust social, economic, political, and religious systems; and some come from natural disasters resulting from Adam and Eve’s sin. Indeed, the fall has tainted every last speck of the cosmos. The point of ABCD is not to deny those needs or the deep-seated brokenness that undergirds them. On the contrary, the point of ABCD is to recognize—from the very start—that poverty is rooted in the brokenness of the foundational relationships
