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Micah 6:8: He has shown all you people what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Ephesians 2:10: For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Our founding maxim is “Justice through Discipleship.” The Just Life is a growing community of Christ followers committed to being agents of social change by living out righteousness and justice in the world. Ours is an ongoing journey to understand what God requires of us, help one another identify the work God has prepared in advance for us to do, and creatively respond to God’s heart for justice. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who We Are
You: This is an open source movement. The Just Life is far more a ministry of questions than of answers. Each community has its own issues to address and its own unique solutions to engage in. We need to explore together just what God can do when faithful hearts are behind strong minds. Share your story!
Founder: Brian Kammerzelt is full-time faculty at Moody Bible Institute. The Just Life began as a way to “critique by creating” while attending Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Brian has worked with pastors, leaders, churches, and para-church organizations from all over the country – from the largest and most influential communities to the smallest and most radical – in order to refine how The Just Life might best serve the Church.
Park Community Church: Now the home church of The Just Life. From the beginning, a core conviction of The Just Life has been that to exist it must be rooted in a living, breathing community that is facing all the challenges the justice conversation has to offer. A wealthy church now centered in the gentrifying, historic Cabrini Green neighborhood of Chicago, Park’s vision is to be a biblical community where the Gospel of Jesus Christ transforms lives, renews the city and impacts the world.
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What We Do
As an organization we serve local churches by coming along side them in order to engage together in holistic and practical responses to God’s call for lives of love and justice from His people. To do this we seek to:
Educate: Increase awareness about Biblical justice issues and responses within the church locally, nationally, and around the world. This is done primarily though this website, curriculum and content development, as well as speaking and teaching engagements.
Facilitate: Build a community of fellowship with a unified vision and disciplined commitment to Biblical justice that raises up advocates who work for individual and structural social change based on Biblical principles. Our primary method is the local meet-up – a creative space where Christians can raise justice values within their community and work out daily practical responses to God’s call for love and justice from His people. We not only work to help create effective meet-ups, but also to help connect people and organizations to them.
Co-create: Engage and strengthen a collaborative network of individuals and organizations that are passionately living out Biblical justice through local, national, and global collaboration as well as localized funding.
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About This Site
Welcome to the community “blogzine” of The Just Life. This site is dedicated to a growing community of Christians committed to an open discussion about and a disciplined response to what it means to live a life of love and justice based on Biblical principles, the teachings and life of Jesus, the examples of His followers, and the daily realities we face.
The Just Life ministry seeks to offer biblically-based teaching and practical solutions for the life we are called to live in response to God’s demand for love and justice from His people. The Just Life is about tackling hard issues like poverty, race, gender, wealth, politics, and the environment as a community committed to exploring the issues, educating one another about the truth, and embracing the principles of biblical justice. We will work through the difficult matters together; we will ask the hard questions, we will search the deep places — What does the LORD require?
Here you will find articles and blog posts on a variety of biblical justice related topics that are open for anyone to comment on and discuss with other visitors. Everyone is searching for daily practical responses to God’s heart for justice. Each issue and discussion is tempered by an honest desire to figure out: What does the LORD require? What do I do differently tomorrow than I did today?
A major feature is the “Justice Issues Feed.” The feed is drawing in news content from all over the web that is relevant to the Biblical Justice conversation and this information is filtered into the appropriate categories. That means new content for research and inspiration is being added constantly!
Comment freely on any article no matter when it was originally posted – no discussion ever expires as there are always new people joining in. We are all looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
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Write For Us!
The Just Life is meant to be a collaborative space. As our community and content grows we are always looking for passionate writers to bring issues, organizations, and solutions to our attention.
Bring up important issues. Explore what it looks like to live a just life — with our prayers, with our giving, with our purchases, with our vote, with our voice, in our minds, in our homes, in our community, in our city and globally.
Share your story! Everyone’s journey to and through the difficult issues of biblical justice is unique — we want to hear your story. How has God opened your eyes to justice and compassion? What life choices have you made in response? What are the questions you are wrestling with? What do you think it looks like to live a “just life?”
If you have any insight beyond what you can share by merely commenting on a post please send your article idea to contact@thejustlife.org. Challenge and inspire us towards daily practical responses to God’s heart for justice.