It's Always A Good Idea

God Doesn't Want To Change The World Without You.

There Is An Innocence Or Purity That We See In Renewals And In The Mennonite Church And A New An Invigorated Civil Rights Movement.

Someday War And Poverty Will Be Crazy And We Will Wonder How The World Allowed Such Things To Exist.

We Think Of Justice Sometimes As Getting What You Deserve, You Know  -  what Crime Was Committed And What Is The Punishment For That Crime. That's How A Lot Of The Criminal Justice Works. But God's Justice Is Restorative, So It's Not As Interested In Those Same Questions Of "what Did They Do Wrong?" And "what Is The Punishment For That?" It's More About What Harm Was Done And How Do We Heal That Harm, And That's A Much More Redemptive Version. So, It Definitely Doesn't Turn A Blind Eye To Harm, But It Does Say We Want To Heal The Wounds Of That.

I Have This Certain Reluctance When It Comes To This Idea That We Are Spiritual But Not Religious And We Want Jesus But Not The Church. Why Can't We Have Both?