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Living Justice: Revolutionary Compassion in a Broken World (Undercurrent)

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The book is written and focused toward youth. It starts off with two different teenagers leaving two different churches passing the same poor or broken part of a city. The boys view is that of a traditional orthodox view of salvation and Christianity and it is then compared to the young women who has a unorthodox view of Christianity being lived out. The book gives credit to girl who stops to help a poor women inferring that because Tim was raised with typical orthodox views of salvation and righteousness is less likely or not at all to care to stop and make a difference as the girl did.

The key sentence in this book is found on page 11 that says, "This book will be a challenge to you to explore new horizons in God's plan to bring justice to this earth". The book is about saving physical lives of those in the world more than reaching lost souls with a message of hope in Jesus Christ.

On page 12 it says this regarding Jeremiah 1:10 "In this verse God calls Jeremiah to challenge the way the planet is organized and to make a complete mess of things. God is calling Jeremiah to wreak havoc, but not just for havoc' sake..... After making a royal mess of things, Jeremiah is to be God's partner in re-creating creation, so good life can happen again."

The book is very unorthodox in its push toward the redistribution of wealth among believers to even those outside the walls of the church without a framework. The term Prophetic Imagination is used over and over again as if it is a biblical term. The author defines it, but never supports it with clarity from the scriptures.

The only part of the book I found good was a small section on the teaching on consumerism and how it grabs a hold of our culture at the earliest age. I do agree with the author that we have a consumerism problem among a majority in the US.

The authors seems to push the ideology that orthodox Christianity does reach out and make a big enough difference in the world that that using ones Prophetic Imagination will make the difference. The book seems to counter capitalism and pushes very unorthodox teachings.

This is a very readable introduction to thinking toward acts of justice in the world.