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Practicing Justice in the Church

Charles Lee “The Freeze Project” and LaundryLove.com
What can the church do to “do justice and love mercy”? Micah 6:8

• Retributive Justice 
  • Should the Church hire Kingdom Lawyers to review and defend underserved and underrepresented individuals that are not getting justice?
  • If the church does not have the means to hire someone full-time on staff, are there organizations already doing this work that the church can support? Ex: The Innocence Project and/or The Equal Justice Initiative? 
• Restorative Justice
  • Debt Annihilation House Churches paying off each other’s consumer debts after completing the personal debt snowball. 
  • Cancelling medical debt through organizations like RIP Medical Debt.
  • “Baby Bonds” The Church would set aside $10,000 for children born into the congregation upon their birth. This would mature for 22 years into ~80k and it would be an effort to give all an equal opportunity as they start their adult life. We cannot control equal efforts made or equal outcomes, but we can provide an equal opportunity(Luke 19, Matthew 25). But one my ask, “should we just give 22 year olds money just for being born? Might this tempt the immature to follow in the footsteps of the prodigal son?” Galatians 5:13-15

The Church should provide a curriculum of life changing experiences in order to shape the worldview of those that will take on the responsibility of these funds so that they will be as a blessing and not a curse unto them. 

• The 7 Experiences
  1. Climb a mountain as a part of a “Trek” type ministry.
  2. Complete a significant sailing passage as crew with a ministry such as “God and the Sea”
  3. Go on a journey to the holy lands.
  4. Experience abject poverty.
  5. Attend a PDC & ATC and become certified in both at a location such as Wheaton Labs.
  6. Attend a building workshop through Domegaia, Bamboo U, Monolithic Dome Institute, Earthship Biotecture, etc. and build and live in a small structure for a month that demonstrates the building technique you have learned for the workshop and write a paper on the experience and what you would do differently if you were to build a forever home.  
  7. They would have to attend and pass a financial peace course with curriculum formed by a Christian organization such as Thrivent. 

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