Taking the whole gospel to the poor
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Is poverty more than just "not enough?"
- Where, then, should we look for answers? Jesus can show us what poverty is.
- Consider the words of Matt 9:36: ‘But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered (NKJ), distressed and downcast (NAS), harassed and helpless (NIV), fainted, and were scattered abroad (KJV), worried and helpless (GNB), like sheep having no shepherd.’ What Jesus saw in the multitudes, which moved him to compassion, is truly significant. In the first place, the two words used to describe what he saw, eskulménoi and errimménoi, are so rich that five important different translations of the New Testament in the English language use eight different English words to translate them. Jesus had eyes to see, and what he saw were crowds of people in intense suffering and tragic isolation because poverty is much more than a lack of means."
Continue at What is poverty after all? by, Saúl Cruz who co-directs with his wife Pilar the Armonía ministries in Mexico.
*Armonía is an agency serving the neediest people in the main situations of poverty in Mexico. It is directed by Mexican Christians with a strong sense of indigenous responsibility, in partnership with Christian groups from the United Kingdom, the United States and Mexico itself, who share the common vision of taking the whole Gospel to the poor.
