Video: Jim Wallis (and Others) on Biblical Justice
From a video by Christian Aid:
Christian leaders, including Jim Wallis (Sojourners), John Bell (Iona Community) and the Bishop of Durham (England), reflect on the biblical call for justice. This film was produced by the video team at Christian Aid, the international development agency of the churches of the UK and Ireland. Christian Aid works wherever the need is greatest – irrespective of religion or race. For more info, please visit http://www.christianaid.org.uk/Jim appears at :34 and 3:15. Watch it:
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Posted by: The least of all | April 10, 2007 1:56 AM
Great video and I agree with what is being said. (for the most part) But now why are so many on this site against the 'Faith Based Initiative' that Pres. Bush want to bring about? For every dollar that is collected in taxes for the social welfare of this country, less than $0.37 makes it to the person that needs it. Here we could organize and meet the needs of our community, food, clothing, shelter, education, medicine and we could do the world and 100% of the money could go to the person in need. I tried to get this to happen twice here in MN and one time we could not get things together - it was an idea whose time had not come. The other time it was the Democratic Machine that put all the road blocks up so that it was almost impossible to make a go of it.
This is why I have learned on this site that anything good that a conservative/republican would like to do - liberals will more often than not shoot it down. Do Wallis and Sojo think that this is a new idea or program that has finally come to light in the Christian world. What church are they attending???????? Every church that I have been a part of has had a home and foreign mission focus, and I don't think that we were the exception - I believe we were more the rule.
You know - I think if Wallis would lay off the idea of attacking other groups like he has in many of his articles and just tell us the story of what he believes needs to be done, I could get on board in a more proactive way. But as he has attacked many of the ministries that I have support over the past few decades - I am not too inclined to come to his aid. I believe that I would have to be a liberal and denounce the Graham Assoc. and Dobson and Kennedy's EE program. I can not because I know of too many lives that God has used these organizations to bring them to a deeper understand of who Christ is in their lives. Heal a family is crisis for any number of reasons etc.
So I will continue to work with the food shelf in my community, raise money to educate people in central America so that they can support their children and families. All with my conservative evangelical friends - like we have done for decades and as our parents did and their parents did.
Sojo - whatever... .
Posted by: moderatelad | April 10, 2007 3:29 AM
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