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The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World

This book delves into seven distinct approaches that have the potential to revolutionize the world, offering readers insights into how they can be implemented and the potential impact they may have. more

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Jim Wallis
Jim Wallis

Jim Wallis is a distinguished American writer and social activist. He is the founder and president of Sojourners, a Christian social justice movement. Wallis has been a leading voice in the religious left and has written numerous books on social issues, spirituality, and politics. more

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“When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.”

“Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.”