Becoming a Just Church

<P><B>IVP Readers' Choice Award</B></P><P><B>Stop outsourcing justice!</B></P><P>Many local churches don't know what to do about justice. We tend to compartmentalize it as merely a strategy for outreach and we often outsource it to parachurch justice ministries. While these organizations do good work individual congregations are left disconnected from God's just purposes in the world.</P><P>Adam Gustine calls the local church to be just and do justice. He provides a theological vision for our identity as a just people where God's character and the pursuit of shalom infuses every aspect of our congregational DNA. As we grow in becoming just 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. This renewed vision for the church leads us into cultivating a just life together-in community discipleship worship and more-extending justice out into the world in concrete ways.</P><P>Let's hold being and doing together so we can become just compassionate communities that restore shalom and bring hope to the world.</P>