Misused Scripture of the Day: We’ll Always Have the Poor…

Posted by Sliced on Nov 30th, 2006
2006
Nov 30

Source: Fishing the Abyss
Comments: A number of commenters on Slice, within a short period of time, denigrated missional work being done to help the poor, both inside and outside the US by dismissively (mis)using Jesus’ commenting that “we’ll always have the poor.” In the process of doing so, these commenters give Jesus’ words the exact opposite of their import. Chris posts a contextual exegesis on the actual meaning of this synoptic passage.
Memorable Quotes:

So, if it wasn’t obvious from the P’shat, the Remez should not only put the lie to those who misuse Jesus’ words, but show us, once again, that - while the eternal destination is not unimportant - our temporal responsibility is to care for both the physical and spiritual needs of those less fortunate.

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