Becoming a Just Church – Cultivating Communities of God`s Shalom

Adam L. Gustine leads CovEnterprises, a social enterprise initiative of Love Mercy Do Justice, for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is also the founder of an enterprise incubator in South Bend, Indiana, dedicated to extending opportunity, restoration, and ownership to the margins. He has pastored multiple churches in a wide variety of contexts and has a doctor of ministry degree from Missio Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Ann, are raising three kids to seek the shalom of their city South Bend. Rev. Dr. Dennis Edwards is associate professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. He was a church planter in Brooklyn, New York, as well as Washington, DC, and has been in urban ministry for nearly three decades. He earned an MDiv in urban ministry from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, as well as MA and PhD degrees in biblical studies from Catholic University of America. Dennis has been an instructor of Bible and New Testament Greek at several schools, including Bethel Seminary and St. Mary's Ecumenical Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Foreword by Dennis Edwards

Introduction

Part 1: An Ecclesiology for Justice


1. Justice Isn't an Outreach Strategy: A Way of Life for the People of God

2. Exiles in the Promised Land: The Church as Prophetic Alternative

3. Demonstrating Mañana: The Church as a Parable of God's Intent

4. Gardeners of Shalom: The Church for Flourishing and Transformation

Part 2: Justice in Our Congregational Life


5. Low-Ground Church: Discerning Vision in a High-Ground World

6. Recovering Kinship: Hospitality as Resistance

7. Finding Common Kingdom Ground: Discipling People into Shalom Community

8. Worship: Questions that Drive How We Gather

Part 3: What's Next?


9. Power: A Conversation About the Linchpin of Justice with Juliet Liu and Brandon Green

Epilogue: Commence Justice

Acknowledgments

Notes