THINK ABOUT THIS: Why Jesus Was the Most Compassionate Man Who Ever Lived

Kyle Butt (Screenshot from Apologetics Press video.)

“Compassion” is a word we often hear in American society, especially if you happen to be working as a staff member for a senator or representative, or a committee, in Congress. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year to demonstrate our compassion toward the less fortunate among us.

But is appropriating another $100 billion to the War on Poverty an expression of genuine compassion? Kyle Butt of Apologetic Press sorts through the various definitions of compassion and contrasts them with the way Jesus demonstrated the quality throughout His life: