Book: Let Justice Roll Down
Author: John Perkins
Publisher: Regal Books (2006)
Details: Hardcover, 224 pages, $19.99 MSRP
ISBN: 0-8307-4307-3
“I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I can not stand your assemblies. Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” Amos 5:21-24
In Let Justice Roll Down John Perkins shares his personal story of injustice and hardship and the way the gospel of Jesus Christ transformed him and called him to a lifetime of pursuing justice rather than vengeance, a lifetime of serving others rather than serving himself. He challenges, much like Amos did, what true worship of God looks like. How in the face of injustice and pain could he go on with life as if it did not exist? What did it mean to grow in relationship with God and turn a “blind eye” to the suffering and injustice he knew existed in the place of his youth? What did God want of him? If Jesus was Savior AND Lord what does that mean for the way God was inviting him to live life? Doctor Perkins challenges each of us to ask such questions of our own lives. [Read more…]
