Jesus, Justice and Poverty - Travel Information

Typically when a person looses the ability to sustain themselves they are pushed to the margins of our society…forgotten, a blight on our peaceful existence, better to ignore than to love. In doing so every society dehumanizes the marginalized, treating them less than human, justifying our treatment (or lack thereof) towards them. You know how it feels to see a homeless man beg on the side of the road. Typically they are ignored. You know many people hear about the atrocities throughout the world and think “they did it to themselves”, not realizing most humans would be in a “gutter” if someone didn’t help them out. WE justify by not looking, therefore treating our brothers and sisters like they don’t exist.

Jesus forever gives dignity to the marginalized, identifying himself with them…they are more than human they are children of God.

Significantly, Jesus, in his incarnation, was born a poor man in the midst of a sinful, fallen and chaotic world. We are all outcasts separated from God, but God didn’t ignore us, he sent Jesus to give us true life (eternal life). In his death he came alongside our suffering world and in his resurrection offers us real life. Jesus has always gone to and dwelled in the margins...to earth, becoming a poor human so that true humanity might be brought back to the earth.