Scripture List: Dying to Self
0Incarnate ministry, servant leadership, serving the least of these — all central to a proper understanding of Christian life and practice. Justice manifests itself through discipleship; discipleship is first about dying to self so that Christ might be glorified through us. This concept can be …
Read MorePosted on: 11-5-2007 Posted in: Biblical Teaching, Scripture Lists
We’re it
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. “…prepared in advance…” That is a powerful and inspiring concept. Not only were we created in Christ Jesus to do good …
Read MorePosted on: 10-15-2007 Posted in: Biblical Teaching
Biblical justice is a celebration of discipline
The Just Life is very much an approach to justice issues through spiritual development and self-giving discipleship — viewing a truly “just life” as the ultimate expression of a Christian’s engagement with the world we find ourselves in. Studying the spiritual disciplines is a great …
Read MorePosted on: 02-15-2007 Posted in: Biblical Teaching
The Cost of Discipleship
Today we celebrate the 101st anniversary of the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the person who wrote the book on discipleship. Literally. His book The Cost of Discipleship has been so influential to Christianity and is so foundational for The Just Life that we thought it …
Read MorePosted on: 02-4-2007 Posted in: Biblical Teaching
Gary Haugen on Justice
God has a passion for the world and a passion for justice. According to the Bible, injustice is the abuse of power that allows the strong to take from the weak the good things that God intended for all human beings. God calls us to …
Read MorePosted on: 09-26-2006 Posted in: Biblical Teaching
Remember, it’s a systems thing.
Revisit the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10 25-37) as a justice text. There are more players in this admonition than just the unwitting victim, the cause of the situation in the robber, and the compassionate acts of a stranger. There is also the …
Read MorePosted on: 05-10-2006 Posted in: Biblical Teaching
Dikaiosune: and justice
Did you know that the word justice does not appear in some translations of the New Testament? That could be a bit disconcerting for those who understand biblical social justice to be central to Christianity. The reality is that God’s heart for Justice is so …
Read MorePosted on: 03-20-2006 Posted in: Biblical Teaching
Social Justice as the “new monasticism?” NO!
For a while now I’ve kept this article from Christianity Today on file as an example of Christians engaged in the community development level of social justice (for better and for worse) and who exhibit the high discipleship required to live for justice. These Christian …
Read MorePosted on: 02-2-2006 Posted in: Biblical Teaching
“Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God”
Someone recently commented: “Incarnate Integration & Investment,” isn’t that the way Jesus did it? Is the example He set that hard to see?” and it made me think of this quote by the great Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855): “The matter is quite simple. The …
Read MorePosted on: 01-26-2006 Posted in: Biblical Teaching
What is the Christian Ideal?
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.” ~ G.K. Chesterton. More to come on these questions!
Read MorePosted on: 12-19-2005 Posted in: Biblical Teaching
Biblical Teaching
He has shown you 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. ~Micah 6:8