The Chosen Outcasts

Applying the Bible · Dec 2, 2021 · 7m

In India’s history, there was a time in which their society was made up of castes, or social classes. There became four primary castes and the people in them would identify strongly with their caste, shunning people in any other caste. Even still, the lowest were the people who didn’t belong to any caste. These people were the outcasts.

In the time of Jesus’ birth, shepherds were the outcasts of society. They were the lowest of the low, spending their time with smelly sheep day in and day out, and yet it was to the shepherds that God chose to make known the good news of Jesus’ birth to first…