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Identity in poverty - blessed are the poor in spirit

Started by markvans · 1 year ago

We must desperately seek to be poor in spirit. When we have much, and we are focused on our own needs and our own lives, we think everything we have is earned of our own works, or owed to us because of who we are. When we have nothing and seek nothing, all we are […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Identity in poverty - blessed are the poor in spirit", ... Continue reading »

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  • hewhocutsdown

    1 year ago

    How can you? Start by inviting them over for dinner. One by one that is what we're trying to do; the elderly couple on our one side, the Somali Muslim family on the other, the lone woman across the way, the gay couple my wife nannies for. It's a stretch but how can we do less? It's one way to start, to grow, to love.
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  • Michael Cline

    1 year ago

    Oh yes, that downward mobility thing. This is such a tough subject, and you've tackled with grace and humility. I'm trying to learn those traits, as suggesting that I should help to "make affluence history" more so than "make poverty history" seems ludicrous to most people I talk to. I worry that much of our ministry to the poor is out of pity that they can't live better lives...i.e. lives like ours. While at the same time, I've heard people use this same reasoning to remain apathetic and disengaged, usually sighting Jesus' words (out of context) that "the poor will always be among you" as a reason to not try so hard.
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