WHY JESUS WAS BORN POOR
There was a reason Jesus was born in poverty. When I was growing up, I learned from my mother and father that, as far as economics go, there are four kinds of people in the world. There are poor people. We had some relatives who were poor. Then there were people like us, people who managed to get by. We were in the majority. The third kind of people were those who we called “well off.” We knew some of these people in our church. We even had a few well off relatives. The fourth kind of people were the “filthy rich.” These were the leaders of government and industry, the power brokers. In all my life, I’ve never known a Rockefeller or a Hunt or a Kennedy. I am sure that such people are just like the rest of us, but since I can’t ever move in their circles, I cannot possibly get to know them. If Jesus…
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