Our previous episode took us back to the beginning of our tragic story to explain how injustice was able to take over the world after what happened “in the beginning” to break God’s perfect peace and harmony. In this episode, we want to discuss how God responded to that catastrophe.
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The hard truth is that today, as before, the Lord God must say of his people, “They pay me lip service, but their hearts are far from me.” God created a world of true peace and justice, but our selfishness destroyed the harmony and our bad choices allow injustice to flourish. God had to exile his people to Babylon; we must figure out how to escape Babylon so justice can once again be cultivated and flourish.
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In this first episode of Season 3, host Mark Kelly raises the question of how the gospel relates to social justice. He dismisses those who insist the gospel does not require Jesus’ disciples to address injustice and points the way to a seamless biblical theology of gospel and justice. The episode ends with a dire warning that Christians who ignore social injustice not only disobey God and marginalize their witness, but also put themselves at further risk of God’s judgment.
Please visit our sister site, multiplyjustice.org, for a wealth of resources that will help you pursue God’s mission of restoring justice to our broken world.
Scandalous new allegations about R&B superstar R. Kelly regarding 25 years of abuse and statutory rape have exploded again recently in a six-part Lifetime docu-series entitled Surviving R. Kelly. Through an attorney, the embattled singer has denied the allegations against him.
Our podcast guest is Antoine Williams, an elder at Atlanta’s Blueprint Church, who is a husband and father, as well as a fine-art photographer. Antoine offers some fascinating insights about why some members of the black community protect known abusers, as well as how God’s people can take steps to break the cycle of abuse and start multiplying justice in their communities.
You can meet Antoine via Instagram here. We held our conversation with him at New Creation Arts, a non-profit gallery and studio space designed to serve local artists in Marietta, Georgia.
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The God’s Revolution podcast is a production of the Multiply Justice Network.