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Feeding the Soul in Politically Divided Times: Encouragement for Jesus Followers, Justice Seekers, Resisters, Immigrant Supporters, and Peacemakers

Mike Rumley-Wells

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Description:We're in a crisis. You know that. If my title spoke to you, I don't have to convince you we have a problem. Our picture of shalom contrasts sharply with what we see happening now and we feel compelled to work toward justice in all of this. We can't sit by and hope for the best. If you follow Jesus or try to live by Jesus' message of love, this is for you. If you feel alienated from your community, if you are still trying to be faithful to the God you know but find you no longer have a spiritual home in this splintered, chaotic time, I wrote this with you in mind. If you've been told that you've “lost your way,” if you've lost friendships or even family relationships because you cannot support what is happening in our country, I offer you these meditations. How do we resist and love? How do we seek justice while offering grace? I'm not trying to tell you how to live an authentic faith, but to encourage you to continue living your faith that is authentic. I want to reassure you that however miserable or preposterous this has become, God has not abandoned us. We're not expected to solve it all; God calls us to be faithful to our part, small or large.I'm here to tell you that you haven't lost your way. Name-calling is still wrong. Cruelty is still a sin. Injustice is against God's heart, which is why it's against our hearts; we oppose injustice because we are in God's image. Following Jesus means the end doesn't justify the means.I feel like we’re following Jesus into the darkness, into a world that gets meaner and smaller and harder all the time, that mocks us for offering or expecting anything different. It becomes horribly tempting to do unto others as they’ve done to us.How we walk through this darkness matters. We could fight our way through it, do the right things, and come out angry, hardened, and hateful. We could fight the darkness and let the darkness in. I don't want to hate. I don't want to win the fight and lose my soul. God calls us to be light. We ARE light. I hope and pray this book nourishes you. Throughout this crisis, friends tell me they feel overwhelmed, exhausted, isolated. I do, too. You are not alone. We need one another. I need you. When I was a young new Christian, I wanted to live a “radical” faith. Now I understand that any belief in Jesus I can live will be radical. We don't need to make it radical; we need only to follow Jesus. Offering love and grace in this storm of hatred and fear? God's shalom and justice are radical. May these reflections feed your soul as you continue to do your part.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Feeding the Soul in Politically Divided Times: Encouragement for Jesus Followers, Justice Seekers, Resisters, Immigrant Supporters, and Peacemakers. To get started finding Feeding the Soul in Politically Divided Times: Encouragement for Jesus Followers, Justice Seekers, Resisters, Immigrant Supporters, and Peacemakers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 162

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Rumley-Wells

Release: 2020

ISBN: 0578781190

Description: We're in a crisis. You know that. If my title spoke to you, I don't have to convince you we have a problem. Our picture of shalom contrasts sharply with what we see happening now and we feel compelled to work toward justice in all of this. We can't sit by and hope for the best. If you follow Jesus or try to live by Jesus' message of love, this is for you. If you feel alienated from your community, if you are still trying to be faithful to the God you know but find you no longer have a spiritual home in this splintered, chaotic time, I wrote this with you in mind. If you've been told that you've “lost your way,” if you've lost friendships or even family relationships because you cannot support what is happening in our country, I offer you these meditations. How do we resist and love? How do we seek justice while offering grace? I'm not trying to tell you how to live an authentic faith, but to encourage you to continue living your faith that is authentic. I want to reassure you that however miserable or preposterous this has become, God has not abandoned us. We're not expected to solve it all; God calls us to be faithful to our part, small or large.I'm here to tell you that you haven't lost your way. Name-calling is still wrong. Cruelty is still a sin. Injustice is against God's heart, which is why it's against our hearts; we oppose injustice because we are in God's image. Following Jesus means the end doesn't justify the means.I feel like we’re following Jesus into the darkness, into a world that gets meaner and smaller and harder all the time, that mocks us for offering or expecting anything different. It becomes horribly tempting to do unto others as they’ve done to us.How we walk through this darkness matters. We could fight our way through it, do the right things, and come out angry, hardened, and hateful. We could fight the darkness and let the darkness in. I don't want to hate. I don't want to win the fight and lose my soul. God calls us to be light. We ARE light. I hope and pray this book nourishes you. Throughout this crisis, friends tell me they feel overwhelmed, exhausted, isolated. I do, too. You are not alone. We need one another. I need you. When I was a young new Christian, I wanted to live a “radical” faith. Now I understand that any belief in Jesus I can live will be radical. We don't need to make it radical; we need only to follow Jesus. Offering love and grace in this storm of hatred and fear? God's shalom and justice are radical. May these reflections feed your soul as you continue to do your part.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Feeding the Soul in Politically Divided Times: Encouragement for Jesus Followers, Justice Seekers, Resisters, Immigrant Supporters, and Peacemakers. To get started finding Feeding the Soul in Politically Divided Times: Encouragement for Jesus Followers, Justice Seekers, Resisters, Immigrant Supporters, and Peacemakers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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