We are the richest people ever to walk the facial skin of the earth, but according to analyze, we aren’t becoming happier. Families and areas are significantly fragmented, loneliness is skyrocketing, and physical and mental health are on the drop. Our unprecedented prosperity doesn’t appear to be doing us very much good.

Yet, when we make an effort to help poor people at home or abroad, our implicit assumption is that the goal is to help them to be like us. ‘If they would just do stuff our way, they’d end up being about Becoming Whole: Why the contrary of Poverty Isn’t the American Desire great!’ But even though they appear to pursue our route, they too find the American Dream doesn’t work for them. What if we now have the wrong idea altogether? Imagine if the target isn’t to turn additional countries into the United States or to switch America’s impoverished areas into its affluent suburbs?

In Becoming Whole (building over the bestselling When Helping Hurts), Brian Fikkert and Kelly M. Kapic go through the true resources of brokenness and poverty and uncover the surprising pathways to human flourishing, for poor and nonpoor alike. Exposing the misconceptions of both Traditional western Civilization and the Traditional western church about the nature of God, human beings, and the globe, they redefine achievement and offer fresh ways of achieving that success.