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If youve read about the widows heartbreak when all she has left is taken by thieves or listened to harrowing accounts of families forced into labor for their entire lives or watched horrendous footage of very young girls working in brothels youve likely experienced that spark of outrage igniting your protest at the injustice meted out to the helpless

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Jim martins new book the just church takes you after that emotional moment has passed providing realistic steps for you and your church to answer gods call for biblical justice

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Beginning with his time as a pastor helping young girls in peru to his current role as vice president of church mobilization for international justice mission jim martin takes us along on his personal journey engaging the church to fight injustice specifically when it manifests as violent oppression of the most vulnerable

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Just as ijms vision statement to rescue thousands protect millions and prove that justice for the poor is possible is aggressive so is martins vision for the church our goal in the church mobilization team at ijm is unapologetically ambitious

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Some of these stories made me cry and others gave me chills but there was on common thread god is moving in the church and as congregations around the world are responding to his call justice is rising up

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Jim also hits the nail on the head in regards to what anyone engaging in the work of justice must do in order to engage safely

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And if we accept we will face problems so big situations so complex suffering so profound evil so real and palpable that our faith in god will hit its failure point on a regular basis

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But to shrink back from this invitation is to accept a lesser weaker version of faith