Good News About Injustice Analysis

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“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, and to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.(Biblegateway)” Reading this passage, I have felt that this verse calls out to God’s people to be His hands and feet. In the book, “Good News About Injustice,” it states it well, “The great miracle and mystery of God is that he calls me and you to be a part of what he is doing in history. He could, of course, with no help from us proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ with lifeless stones, feed the entire world with five loaves and two fish, heal the sick with the hem of his garment, and release …show more content…

Some people tend to think that injustice is not as big of a problem than it really is. Injustice is a very real and brutal thing and reading the book “Good News about Injustice,” really helped me look at injustice in a way where I can do things to help. The beginning of the book Good News about Injustice by Gary Haugen, he is telling the reader that there is such a thing as injustice and God is using his people to combat it. We as people tend to block the bad things out and injustice is one of those things. God wants to use us to combat injustice. We are people on this earth to only make it better, by ignoring situations such as Maria’s, that same thing could happen to many different girls. Instead of that happening, we need to rise to this situation and do something about it. Whether it be prayer, educating, storming brothels, anything that can help needs to be done. Once one person starts helping that creates a train affect and soon you have several people supporting a cause that God could have taken in to his own hands but instead He wanted to use His people as His weapon and shine His light through them. Throughout the book the theme is going in the direction of God hates injustice and is actively fighting it with His people. Reasons He hate injustice is because He created each of His own children in His own image and hates it when things are violent and oppressed. The people that are facing injustice in this world today may wonder where God is at, and why He is putting them through this situation. Little do they know that when they suffer God suffers right along with them. God is a man of compassion. In the book it gets into the word power and how God sees that. Saying that injustice is the abuse of power, Maria had this problem with power. This man had some power and control over Maria or so she thought. He was using his power for sinful acts and not empowering the

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