i was once told that the longer your title the less important you really are... with that being said my title is Program Director for the Restorative Justice Initiative in Fresno County (hmmmmm).
Anyways, restorative justice really is a passion of mine. I believe that our view of justice has been warped and narrowed to a view that defines justice as taking "bad people" and punishing them. When God's justice is about right relationships (yes, accountability and consequences are a part of that but it is not the main focus). People much smarter than me have told me that in Hebrew the term justice comes from the same root word as righteousness. Unfortunatly in English we have to seperate those two words when in reality they should be interchangeable.
God wants to restore us to Him, brother to brother, sister to sister, nation to nation, and on and on...
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Good point bro... Justice and Righteousness are the same term in the Greek language. Think of justice when you hear the term "justification" in Pauline writings. God's purpose for everything is Justice: Justice for the cosmos, for the new humanity, and for the renewed human! God's mission is to set everything to rights as he intended it to be. In fact, Paul says at one point that God's pupose is to "gather up all things in Christ (Ephesians 1:10). That means he wants to bring healing to everything... he will mend broken relationships. The gospel is about restoriative justice!
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