We can help create a more just world by being clear about our mission and taking opportunities to fulfill it. Biblical Passage – Matthew 5:13–16 (NLT) 13 “You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out…
Where does the problem lie? Poverty and disadvantage are created and maintained by social, political and economic systems that favour the interest of the powerful over the weak. God called Israel as His covenant people toe be people of justice, with laws and guidelines that would allow them to be a light to the nations…
The Justice of Jesus is the second in a four part series compiled by Scott Higgins and Baptist Care Big Idea: Jesus fulfilled the prophetic hope that God would set the world to right. We see this in his ministry as he liberated people from things that oppressed and bound them (sin, Satan, poverty, disease,…
The World We Want to See – this is a series compiled by Scott Higgins alongside Baptist Care relating particularly to justice. Some of the additional resources I have utilised are from the writings of Miroslav Volf; Tim Keller; Nicholas Wolterstorff; and Jurgen Moltmann. Text: Isaiah 58:1–14 (NLT) ople, the Lord has told you what is…