Introduction

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Ye mn, a beautiful connection between both testaments is jesus fellowship meals, which we show in our book, really mirrors the old testament, fellowship meals. I love how jesus had the reputation not just of being friends with all the wrong people, but of eating with all the wrong people. And i say wrong, they were in inverted commercs, because they were the right people in terms of the kingdom of god. And jesus was enfolding all the right people in the kingdom of god, those who are on the margins of first century jewish society where they, whether they be tax collect or whether they be people who are infirmed, or whether they be people who are prostitutes or sinners by some other category, there is a movement in both testaments of bringing the weakest to the centre of the community,
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belonging kinship. Its everywhere in the bible. And of course, it all sounds wonderful, perhaps a little bit idealistic. I'd love to welcome a refugee to my house for dinner, short but i can't possibly welcome thousands for dinner. The actual size of the refugee problem feels so enormous that it's hard to see a way to overcome it. Sort of getting rid of boarders altogether and saying, come on in. Everyone is welcome. Is that what mark and luke and others are advocating? The rubber has to hit the road somewhere. Is there anything like a practical approach to the refugee problem? That's where we go after the brake. This episode of undeceptions is sponsored by zondovan's new video course based on thaddeus williams book, confronting injustice without compromising truth. I spoke with thaddeus very briefly about this just a few weeks ago. What is your book about? It
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is about how the bible calls us t o justice. A, that's a command we need to take seriously, because it is a divine command, not a divine suggestion. Ah, but the bible also calls us, and jeremiah seven, to truly execute justice, which presupposes there are false or pony ways to execute justice. So what's the difference between the two? Because the call to justice is all the rage thes days, right? So how do we discern between biblical justice and its counterfeits? Whan
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to ask you, what you hope a readers will take from your book, i
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hoped that they would see that while, yes, there have been a lot of sad chapters in christian history where christians, i think omplicit is too soft a turm, there were times that people claiming to follow jesus were not merely complicit, but actually perpetrators of injustice. And for them to have a resource in their hands says, yes, that happened, and yes, it is utterly incompatible with the message and mission of jesus. So maybe i should give these, these christians, a fair hearing, because there is this other side to the coin where people bearing the name of christ actually did make the world a better place. One of the reasons i wrote the book, as i kept seeing some of my students, some of my friends, who were getting drawn into a certain ideology that marketed itself with social justice, where i saw them replace the fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, self control. I saw all that fruit slowly turn into suspicion and rage and self righteousness and quickness to take offence. And when i look at the scriptures, you know, first corinthians 13, the famous wedding passage, one of the marks of love is it's not easily offended.

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