“This is the Jesus who entered the bloody history of Israel, and the human race. Jesus didn't enter a world of sparkly Christmas cards or a world of warm spiritual sentiment. Jesus enters a world of real pain, of serious dysfunction, a world of brokenness and political oppression.
Jesus was born an outcast, a homeless person, a refugee, and finally he becomes a victim to the powers that be. Jesus is the perfect savior for outcasts, refugees, and nobodies. That's how the church is described in Scripture time and time again – not as the best and the brightest, but those who in their weakness become a sign for the world of the wisdom and power of God.”                                                                                                                                                                
~ Joy Carroll Wallis