When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett
Week 10: Review & Reflection
Review your notes, journal entries, and highlights from all chapters of When Helping Hurts
Previewing Week 10 of When Helping Hurts
Read 3 of 8 discussion questions below. Unlock the complete 10-week guide when you’re ready.
Take this final week to look back across the whole journey — not just to consolidate what you've learned, but to ask what you will actually do with it.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Which chapter or concept in When Helping Hurts was most surprising or most challenging to you? What made it land so hard?
2.The book's central argument rests on a theological claim: that poverty is rooted in broken relationships — with God, self, others, and creation — and that true poverty alleviation requires restoring those relationships. Has that framework changed the way you define poverty? How would you explain it to someone who has never read the book?
3.Reflect on the relief/rehabilitation/development distinction. Before reading this book, which of the three did your church or your personal giving most heavily emphasize? Has that changed, or do you now see it needs to change?