For Such A Time As This | Justice...Eventually - Esther 6:14-8.2 - Clint Leavitt

Sermon show notes for podcast and YouTube: 1. “The nature of faith is to live constantly out of tune with the world as it is presently, and constantly in tune with the way God intends it to be.” -N.T. Wright, “Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship” 2. “Christianity stands or falls by its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness, and pride of power, and by its witness for the weak. I feel that Christianity is doing too little in making these points rather than doing too much. Christianity has adjusted itself much too easily to the worship of power. It should give much more offense, more shock to the world, than it is doing. Christianity should take a much more definite stand for the weak than for the potential moral right of the strong.” --Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “My Strength Is Made Perfect in Weakness” 3. “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “The Gulag Archipelago” 4. “We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us. Reclaim now, now renew the vision of a human world where godliness is possible and man is permitted to be man.” -Robert Hayden, “Collected Poems” 5. Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo