\u201cThe University should be thinking about what its heart is,\u201d\u009d [Sam] Wells said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have a heart, you simply commit yourself to a commodity culture where you are only here to get an investment, a degree…. It\u2019s an impoverished notion of what a university can truly be.\u201d\u009d For the Chapel to effectively operate as a church, Wells said that it is important to interact with the people Jesus spent most of his life with\u201d\u201dthe poor. He tried to accomplish this through outreach to Durham\u2019s more impoverished areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuccess is seeing people\u2019s lives change and not just saying so but actually seeing the differences,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cPoverty is a mask we sometimes put on people to [conceal] their real wealth… [but it is important for] a rich person to see how poor they are or for a person coming out of prison to see how rich he is…. That\u2019s what the kingdom of God is about, those kinds of transformations.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n