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    "title": "Your Help Is Hurting: How Church Foreign Aid Programs Make Things Worse",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2013-08-06 03:46:06 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>When you try to help, you try to give things, you start to have the consequences. There\u00e2\u0080\u0099s an author Bob Lupton, who really nails it when he says that when he gave something the first time, there was gratitude; and when he gave something a second time to that same community, there was anticipation; the third time, there was expectation; the fourth time, there was entitlement; and the fifth time, there was dependency. That is what we\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve all experienced when we\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve wanted to do good. Something changes the more we just give hand-out after hand-out. Something that is designed to be a help actually causes harm.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/jerrybowyer/2013/07/30/your-help-is-hurting-how-church-foreign-aid-programs-make-things-worse/\">Your Help Is Hurting: How Church Foreign Aid Programs Make Things Worse - Forbes</a>.</p>\n"
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