Mission Hills
1 min readJul 19, 2017

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Jesus’ life and ministry was dedicated to serving the poor and outcast. Or, as Jesus would say, “neighbor.” I think his pronouncement of his mission in Luke 4 says it best: “He came to Nazareth where he had been reared. As he always did on the Sabbath, he went to the meeting place. When he stood up to read, he was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written, God’s Spirit is on me; he’s chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free, to announce, “This is God’s year to act!” He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the assistant, and sat down. Every eye in the place was on him, intent. Then he started in, “You’ve just heard Scripture make history. It came true just now in this place.” I would simply say that since love of “neighbor” is Jesus’ main concern (and most often Yahweh’s), the Bible is more consistent in this message than any other (although this is not the whole of theology obviously).

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