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It took me a long time to get Jesus right. The line that got me was, “Jesus preached good news to the poor.” The good news to poor people was that it wasn’t God’s will for them to be poor. That they had a right to strive for what was rightfully theirs and to have a decent life.
In other words, poverty had to be resisted, not just something accepted because God’s going to reward you in another life. You have to work for justice.
When I heard that, I didn’t even know any poor people, and I lived in New Orleans. We had 10 major housing projects for poor people of color and I’d never been to any of them. I was always in the suburbs with other white people like me.
God helped me to wake up and see that the Gospel was about being on the side with people who had no voice, anyone marginalized or struggling.
