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Experimenting gets churches out of the ecclesiocentric default of having all the answers, all the resources, all the control. God is ahead of us, and our churches are remade and communities change as we participate with God. Taking these small steps can lead to a huge impact.
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
Worship and Poverty Alleviation
Kelly M. Kapic • Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
Our current intellectual and cultural crisis demands a sense of solidarity and common humanity that is intrinsic to the Christian faith, and we should recover the early church’s spirit of passionate engagement with culture based on the mystery of the incarnation.
Jens Zimmermann • Incarnational Humanism: A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the World (Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology)
These practices are crucial because a paradoxical element of faith within our work for justice is that in a sense we believe the outcomes are completely up to God, yet in another sense it seems God has left the outcomes up to us.
Kent Annan • Slow Kingdom Coming
Womanists and feminists focus on the life of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels which inspires discipleship and encourages people to resist evil as Jesus did. Atonement theories, which image God as a Patriarch and Jesus as a passive surrogate, do not empower the oppressed to resist oppression but rather encourage
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body
Our political decisions must demonstrate love for our neighbors while observing the timeless truths God has revealed to us through Scripture.
Justin Giboney • Compassion (&) Conviction: The AND Campaign's Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement
God’s larger dream: a world in which human dignity is real, and the presence of God is manifest.