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When Walter Rauschenbusch spent a decade as the pastor of a German congregation in Hell's Kitchen he encountered unspeakable poverty. He went there expecting to preach personal salvation "in the normal sense," as he once said. But he soon found that the gospel had to address social concerns as well. He worked out a theology of social sin and how God had a plan to address this as well as personal sin. There was not any single moment, but he did say that the most heart-wrenching moments came as was presiding over the funerals of Children. All to often he witnessed the deaths of innocent children, who died because of issues specific to poverty - diseases left undiagnosed, untreated, or spread because of the squalid living conditions of the tenements.

A great place to read about this is in the book A Break in the Clouds: An Evangelical's Reflection on the Corporate Nature of Christianity and the theology of Walter Rauschenbusch by Tim Suttle (Wipf & Stock 2011).

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