Leonard Sweet wrote a really "sweet" meditation included in a book called Justice in the Burbs by Will and Lisa Samson. He attempts to define justice biblically, and talks about how we in modern America so often associate the word with "What do you stand for?" Sweet writes that the better question is "Who are you standing with?" Instead of "Here I stand", we should be about "There we go." Here are a few of his quotes....
"The problem with "Here I stand" justice is that in the Bible, love and justice are yoked concepts, and both are personified in a "There we go" Jesus."
"What if the "Christian position" on the hot-button issues of the day is less a statement than a stance, less a principle than a posture? Instead of "What are we standing for?" why aren't we talking about "Who are we standing with?" Isn't it the nature of the disciples of Jesus to be known less for a certain opinion about an issue than to be known for who we are in relationship with? Maybe our hot button issues are less about "issues" than about "relationships." Wasn't it Jesus who made the final quiz not one of "What are you standing for?" but one of "Who are you standing with?"
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