Two Thousand Verses

I read a story today about a man, Jim Wallis, who went through all sixty-six books of the Bible and underlined every passage and verse that dealt with poverty, wealth, justice and oppression. After the experiment, he took a pair of scissors and cut every one of those verses out of his Bible. The result was a book in tatters that barely held together. His Bible was left in shambles.

Today, Mr.Wallis speaks on issues of poverty and justice while holding his ragged Bible full of holes.

Brothers and sisters, this is our American Bible; it is full of holes. Each one of us might as well take our Bibles, a pair of scissors, and begin cutting out all the scriptures we pay no attention to, all the biblical texts that we just ignore.

According to The Poverty & Justice Bible, there are almost two thousand verses in Scripture that deal with poverty and justice.*