
Doing Good Without Giving Up
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- 12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year (Social Justice)
"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." - Galatians 6:9If you're working tomake the world a better place, you might find yourself discouraged. Needs are overwhelming, resources are limited, opposition is real and progress is slow. How do we persevere when the novelty wears off and our enthusiasm runs out?We all want changein the world. But as C. S. Lewis put it, we don't get second things by placing them first; we get second things by keeping first things first. As Christians, we don't just aim at change; we aim at faithfulness, and out of faithfulness comes fruitfulness.Activist Ben Lowe renews our mission with key postures and practices for sustaining faithful social action. What makes social action distinctively Christian includes such things as living out Jesus? love, having a prophetic witness, building bridges with opponents, repudiating idolatries, and practicing repentance and sabbath. Moving beyond theory, Lowe showcases practical examples of what it looks like to persevere in faithful activism and advocacy today. Take heart. As you work for God, God is at work in you to keep your hope alive.
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Ben Lowe is on staff with the Evangelical Environmental Network and serves as the national spokesperson for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action. A dedicated activist and organizer, Ben was raised a missionary kid in Southeast Asia and now livesas part of an intentional community in a refugee and immigrant neighborhood outside Chicago, where he ran for US Congress in 2010. He is a graduate of Wheaton College (IL) and the author of Green Revolution.
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Foreword Begin Here: Prophets of a Future Not Our Own Part One: Renewing Our Mission 1 Wait, Don?t Give Up! 2 Is Social Action Necessary? 3 Overcoming Obstacles to Social Action 4 Reconciling Evangelism and Social Action 5 Transcending the Culture Wars 6 Restoring a Faithful Agenda Part Two: Sustaining Our Action 7 Love 8 Prophecy 9 Opposition 10 Idolatry 11 Repentance 12Sabbath 13 Contemplation 14 Community A Final Word: Onward Acknowledgments Notes
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