What Did Jesus Give Up to Become Poor?
How the example of Jesus reveals that generosity isn’t just about money
An excerpt from the forthcoming book by Jamaal Williams and Timothy Paul Jones, In Church as It Is in Heaven (InterVarsity Press, 2023)
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though he was rich, for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9).
What were the riches that Jesus gave up?
It wasn’t a wealth of money that Jesus released in his incarnation.
He didn’t give up denarii or drachmae, dollars or cents.
Part of what he gave up was a wealth of privilege.
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