First Covenant Church

I believe that our church does a pretty good job of showing mercy.  Even this past Sunday a man came to the church in between services and people found out his need and met it, even missing the service (to some people this wouldn't be a huge sacrifice) to go with this man and help him with his needs.  That is mercy; meeting people's needs, feeding the starving, clothing the naked, housing the homeless. 

But this week Tammy and I (dave) are going to discuss what it means to move beyond mercy to justice.  At some point, we must not only treat the symptoms of a disease but the disease itself--we must look for what is causing the poverty, what is causing the hunger, what is causing the homelessness.

No doubt this route is riskier.  It may mean a shift in our worldviews; it may even demand something of us.  It definitely isn't cut-and-dry with easy answers. But I have come to believe that real faith is costly.  So, are we willing to go beyond mercy and seek after justice?  Come here the dialogue.