With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development / Edition 3

by John M. Perkins

Overview

From the author of Let Justice Roll Down, chosen by Christianity Today as one of the top 50 books that have shaped evangelicals, come the 3 Rs of Christian Community Development brought up-to-date for the 21st century—Relocation: To be an effective community developer demands relocating into the community of need. We must live among those we are serving. We must become one of them. Their needs must become our needs. Reconciliation: In an incredible night of horrors Perkins was beaten to within an inch of his life by policemen in Brandon, Mississippi. It was as he was being beaten that he heard and accepted God’s call to a ministry of reconciliation between blacks and whites. Be encouraged by the fruits of Perkins’ ministries in the heart of racially torn Mississippi and throughout the world. Redistribution: The earth does not belong to us, but to God. We are only its stewards. God provided the earth for all mankind. Economic injustice, then, is simply depriving people of free access to God’s creation. Justice is achieved by working with God to share His resources with the disenfranchised of the earth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780830744954
Publisher:	Gospel Light Publications
Publication date:	10/28/2007
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

JOHN M. PERKINS has ministered among the poor for nearly 50 years. He founded Mendenhall Ministries, Voice of Calvary Ministries and the Harambee Christian Family Center and Preparatory School, and was co-founder of the Christian Community Development Association. He was publisher of Urban Family Magazine and is the author of nine books, including the civil rights classic Let Justice Roll Down, one of the top 50 books of the last half of the twentieth century, according to Christianity Today. Despite dropping out of school before he was 10, he now holds 8 honorary doctorates. John has served on the boards of directors of World Vision, Prison Fellowship, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), Spring Arbor College, and others. He is an international speaker and a teacher on the issues of racial reconciliation, indigenous leadership development and community development. Seattle Pacific University recently opened the John Perkins Center for Reconciliation.

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Foreword Charles W. Colson 7

Special Foreword to the Updated Edition Elizabeth Perkins 9

Introduction 11

The Need

1 Evangelism Is Not Enough 16

2 A Powerless Gospel 25

3 Sheep Without a Shepherd 34

The Vision

4 Here Am I, Send Me! 44

5 I Have a Dream, Too 51

The Strategy

Relocation

6 Your Need Is My Need 60

7 Filling the Leadership Vacuum 67

8 Getting Your Feet Wet 78

9 Relocation: A Strategy for Here and Now 88

Update-Relocation: Still the First Step 101

Reconciliation

10 Love Is Stronger than Hate 106

11 The Reconciled Community 114

12 The Rocky Road to Reconciliation 122

13 Ten Years Later 131

14 Reconciliation: A Strategy for Here and Now 145

Update-Reconciliation: It's Happening Slowly But Surely 153

Redistribution

15 A Dime and a Buffalo Nickel 158

16 The Not-So-Great Society 169

17 Can Free Enterprise Work for Us? 179

18 Redistribution: A Strategy for Here and Now 191

Update-Redistribution: The Challenge Remains 203

The Challenge

19 Come, Let Us Rebuild the Walls of America 210

Epilogue 218

Interaction Section 226

Endnotes 237

A Few Other Books Worth Reading 239