"This spirit of poverty impels us, with lively confidence in the Lord, to place our treasure in the kingdom of God and his righteousness. It means freedom from enslavement to worldly affairs and even from anxiety about them so that we may bind ourselves more fully to God and devote ourselves more readily to him. In our own regard, it means frugality, which associates us more closely with the poor to whom the gospel is to be preached; in regard to our brethren and neighbors it also means liberality when for the sake of the kingdom of God we freely spend what we have “so that in all the needs of this life, which pass away, that charity which abides forever may prevail.” LCM 28.2