Critical Issues for Evangelicalism

Life becomes an unbearable burden whenever we lose touch with the presence of a loving Savior and see only hunger to be alleviated, injustice to be addressed, violence to be overcome, wars to be stopped, and loneliness to be removed.  All these are critical issues, and Christians must try to solve them; however, when our concern no longer flows from our personal encounter with the living Christ, we feel the weight.
from "Prayer Embraces the World" by Henri Nouwen.

The polarization of the evangelical world continues. Either we are for discipleship or we are for "social justice".  Nothing could be more of a fallacy.  When we are for God, we are for justice. When we are for real justice, we have to be for God.   The pursuit of God--the encounter with the living Christ--is our abundant life flowing out of us as a movement of justice and mercy in the world.
We are not problem-solvers, we are God-bearers.

Our yoke becomes heavy and unmanageable without the grace of an encounter with Jesus.  But when we encounter Jesus, we are compelled to become bearers of that grace in the world.  Action and Discipleship: woven together, without end or separation.