Embracing a Different Jesus and Christianity Amid Margins
Discover a thought-provoking narrative on Jesus and Christianity that challenges traditional norms and highlights marginalized communities through powerful excerpts from "Jesus and the Disinherited" by Howard Thurman. Explore how Jesus acknowledged and cared for outcasts, urging Christians to break free from historical injustices and embrace a new paradigm of faith and compassion.
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JESUS ON THE MARGINS A Different kind of Jesus A Different kind of Christian
A DIFFERENT KIND OF JESUS Mark 2:15-17 15Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. (There were many people of this kind among Jesus followers.) 16But when the teachers of religious law who were Phariseessaw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, Why does he eat with such scum? 17When Jesus heard this, he told them, Healthy people don t need a doctor sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF JESUS Jesus acknowledges those whom others didn t those on the margins.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF JESUS Jesus cares for those whom others didn t fishermen demon-possessed poor prostitutes adulterers the Samaritans tax collectors widows physically sick sinners children weak
The men who bought the slaves were Christians. Christian ministers, quoting the Christian apostle Paul, gave the sanction of religion to the system of slavery. from Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Some seventy years or more ago you were freed by a man who was NOT a professing Christian during all the period since then you have lived in a Christian nation in which you were segregated, lynched, and burned. Even in the church there is segregation. from Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and powerful and against the weak and oppressed this, despite the gospel. from Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
JESUS INVITES US TO BE A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTIAN
A DIFFERENT KIND OF JESUS A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTIAN
