Title: Justice, mercy and humility: the papers of the Micah Network International Consultation on Integral Mission and the Poor (2001) /
Authors: Chester, Tim; Chester, Tim.; Micah Network International Consultation on Integral Mission and the Poor.
Publisher: Paternoster Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Missions.; Church work with the poor.; Social change Religious aspects Christianity
Abstract: Perhaps the most critical social task for the church in our generation is to offer a compelling alternative to the unjust imbalances in the world economic order and the values of its consumer culture. God is calling us to build global twin towers of justice and peace. We need to create a coalition of compassion ... Justice, Mercy and Humility explores the challenge of integral mission among the poor today. It locates the Christian response within a world of alternatives £ alternatives at the macro-level of policies and advocacy and the micro-level of lifestyle and affirms the need to integrate ourselves within a total missional response to the poor. Combing case studies from around the world with Jesus' own teaching and ministry, the book considers what it means for the church to be a countercultural ministry and in doing so raises new questions about what it means to be church -- Publisher description.
Contents: Introducing Integral Mission / Tim Chester -- Introducing the Micah Network / Steve Bradbury -- The Micah declaration on integral mission. -- pt. 1. Integral mission -- pt. 2. Integral mission and the poor -- pt. 3. Integral mission and the church -- pt. 4. Integral mission, advocacy and lifestyle.