God's love is not passive, but confronts injustice. The assertive love of Jesus confronted injustice with a call to repentance. God's love empowers the people of God for justice and sustains them in the divine calling to join God in the long-range task of creating a shalom community. Shalom is the biblical vision which combines justice and peace. Nonviolent love was the method of Jesus, the suffering servant, in challenging the powers and principalities.
Biblical justice has a very specific content and application.
Love for the neighbor, especially the poor and marginalized, was practiced and preached by Jesus. As disciples of Jesus Christ, we are called to participate in God's nonviolent work of justice and reconciliation. In so doing we can also expect to suffer with our Lord. The church is the visible expression of the kingdom of God, brought together in Christ to demonstrate the new community of right relationships. Prophetic discernment is necessary for the church to test its own life and to discover with the aid of the Holy Spirit how to relate to the urgent needs for justice and peace in our world.