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Jesus and Justice Always Kiss: A Plea to Youth Pastors Making Out with Empire

By Jolyon / 25 February 2009

As our Peace Tree Community has started to experience, instead of Christians going door knocking, people will start to knock on our door and ask “Why?”

Why do you let homeless people and refugees stay with you?

Why do the local kids hang out with wadjalas (white fellas) like you?

Why were you on the news peacefully protesting?

Why do you have time for me when no one else does?

Why do you volunteer in the community permaculture garden when the food often gets taken?

The challenge for youth pastors is the challenge of hearing Jesus say, “Follow me”; to lose our lives in living God’s love.

http://blog.sojo.net/2009/02/11/jesus-and-justice-always-kiss-a-plea-to-youth-pastors-making-out-with-empire/

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This site is run by the Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church.

We seek to nurture justice spirituality and imagination, and engage in advocacy in all areas of life, overcoming poverty and transforming violence.

We encourage people to think and live “justly”, and emphasise debate and action on local, national and global issues.

Although we are Anglican, our vision isn’t so much about being Anglican. It’s about living justly. Justice is about how you live your life, and being just where we are. Working together, we can all flourish.

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