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How should the local church think about justice? Adam Gustine provides a theological vision for the church's identity as a just people, where God's character and the pursuit of shalom infuses every aspect of our congregational DNA. In this renewed vision, the church becomes a prophetic alternative to the broken systems of the world and a parable of God's intentions for human flourishing and societal transformation.
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IVP Books (2019), 224 pages
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The author discusses the failure of the Evangelical Church to address social justice concerns and suggests means of cultivating a ministry to all people in their church's area--not just the people of the same socioeconomic status as the church core. The author is more familiar with the urban church
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setting than the rural or smaller town church, and his ideas seem best-fitted to more densely-populated areas. A few concepts extend to either. Unfortunately the author did not always back up his ideas with Scripture nor answer the inevitable opposite arguments that could be made. Most readers will question the way they've done some things, but whether or not they will change the way things are done remains to be seen. The book offers questions for group study, so it might be a useful Sunday School or midweek study with the right teacher. Show Less