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Good News Goods – April 2010
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It’s spring! The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and new life has been given to our old website.
For more information about our Fair Trade Initiative and how to get involved visit goodnewsgoods.com
We have recently come through the season of Lent—the time of taking a moral and spiritual inventory of our lives—and are now being ushered into Easter to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus and through Him, the birth of a new creation, a new Kingdom, a new way of living, The Way!
As Walter Brueggemann says, “The gospel helps us to shatter settled realities and evoke new possibilities!” But what is the point of believing in the resurrection if we are not living the resurrection? We are called to the Jesus-shaped way of being human, and His heart beats for the poor and the marginalized, the abused and the broken, the ignored and the forsaken.
We are called to a radical re-ordering of our lives—where our spiritual and private lives collide; where we reconsider the impact that our daily choices have on other people near and far; where we are intentional about our consumer habits because we know our spending is just as much as discipleship issue as our tithe giving; and where we are constantly seeking out ways to alter our lives in the pursuit of biblical justice. This is not an altar call, but rather it is an Alter Call.
One simple way to follow this call is through Good News Goods, the Fair Trade Initiative of the Christian Life Commission. Go to goodnewsgoods.com to read more about this initiative, to access resources, to sign up your church to get involved, and to shop online for Fair Trade products.
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