https://daveseivright.com/2016/08/06/do-wealthy-and-successful-lives-matter-to-god/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:31:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6 https://daveseivright.com/2016/08/06/do-wealthy-and-successful-lives-matter-to-god/#comment-84 Sun, 07 Aug 2016 15:27:08 +0000 http://daveseivright.com/?p=214#comment-84 Jesus according to the Gospels clearly had a special ministry to “tax collectors and sinners.” The former were very wealthy “accountants” understandably despised by the Jews for collecting taxes as private entrepreneurs on behalf of the Romans. He regarded them as among “the poor” and the left out with whom he scandalously dined to the horror of the self-righteous. All that matters for Jesus is that we end up identifying ourselves as among the poor to whom he has come in his grace and mercy.

]]> https://daveseivright.com/2016/08/06/do-wealthy-and-successful-lives-matter-to-god/#comment-83 Sun, 07 Aug 2016 12:30:50 +0000 http://daveseivright.com/?p=214#comment-83 Good WORD!!

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