entirety of their lives, so that they can “live it out.” And one of the most prominent areas that the gospel effects is our relationship to the poor. I know of no better introduction to how the gospel moves us to minister to the poor than Jonathan Edwards’s discourse “Christian Charity.”7 Edwards concludes that giving and caring for the poor is a crucial, non-optional aspect of “living out the gospel.” There are two basic arguments Edwards puts forth for this conclusion.