7. Concern for basic needs means… providing direct service to help ensure that everyone’s basic needs are met through works of mercy – charity.

10. DONE

12. - St. Ambrose, an early Church leader, addressed this point to the rich church members: "You are not making a gift to the poor man from your possessions, but you are returning what is his. For what is common has been given for the use of all, [but] you make exclusive use of it. The earth belongs to all, not to the rich."

23. The Jubilee Principle assured that the gap between the rich and the poor was minimal because the means of producing wealth (land) was to be equalized regularly. "Because he disapproves of extremes of wealth among His people, God ordains equalizing mechanisms like the year of Jubilee" (Sider, 90).

24. The theological support for this is the fact that God owns the land. "The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me" (Lev. 25:23).

29. 3. Loans: Every 7 years all debts are to be canceled! (Deut. 15:1-6).

30. C. Laws of Tithing- the law calls for one-tenth of all farm produce and/or money, whether animal, grain or wine, to be set aside as a tithe. "At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your produce in the same year... and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled: that the Lord your God may bless you" (Deut 14:28-29; see also Lav. 27:30-32; Deut 26:12-15; Num 18:21-32).

32. God's law decreed that farmers should leave some of the harvest, including the corners of grain fields, for the poor. For example, grapes that had been dropped accidentally were to be left. "You shall leave them for the poor and the sojourners: I am the Lord your God" (Lev. 19:9-10) D. Laws of Gleaning -