Service involves hands-on involvement. Education means raising awareness. Witnessing includes making one's views known through demonstrations or picket lines. Advocacy consists of working in the legislative process. And community organizing entails helping oppressed people organize themselves.
People doing social justice ministry are intentional about what they do.
Action groups establish program priorities and set clear goals and objectives for projects. They carefully develop strategies and tactics to meet their goals, rather than jumping into action quickly. People make a careful analysis of the problems they are trying to solve and they develop concrete, specific, manageable projects. Social justice program leaders use the financial resources of the congregation. Social justice leaders make use of the financial resources of the congregation by establishing a line item in the budget.