“By calling ourselves ‘Red Letter Christians’, we are alluding to those old versions of the Bible wherein the words of Jesus are printed in red. In adopting the name, we are saying that we are committed to living out the things that Jesus taught. The message in those red letters is radical, to say the least.”
“Presently, the US allocates less than four-tenths of one percent of its federal budget to address world poverty. Americans make up 4.5 percent of the world’s population and consume more than 40 percent of the world’s resources. Given that reality, there is something terribly amiss when our national budget ranks second to last of the 22 industrialized nations for assistance to the world‘s poor.”
“When Jesus said, ‘Love your enemies,’ He probably meant we shouldn’t kill them.”–bumper sticker
Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians
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