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Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World, By Gary A. Haugen

Good News About Injustice

A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World

The IVP Signature Collection

by Gary A. Haugen
Foreword by John Stott

Good News About Injustice
Paperback
$26.99
  • Length: 280 pages
  • Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.5 in
  • Published: October 26, 2021
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9780830848676
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The good news about injustice is that God is against it.

God is in the business of using the unlikely to bring about justice and mercy. In Good News About Injustice, Gary Haugen offers stories of courageous Christians who have stood up for justice in the face of human trafficking, forced prostitution, racial and religious persecution, and torture. Throughout he provides concrete guidance on how ordinary Christians can rise up to seek justice throughout the world.

This landmark work, featuring newly updated statistics, is now part of the IVP Signature Collection, which features special editions of iconic books in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of InterVarsity Press. A five-session companion Bible study is also available.

REVIEWS

"Gary Haugen is a prophetic voice to this generation. We are called to live courageously for the cause of Christ. Good News About Injustice will show you how. Prepare to be convicted, challenged and inspired."
"It's easy when confronted with the suffering of the world to be overwhelmed with guilt, despair and their nasty friend, indifference—but when you hear or read Gary Haugen, something altogether different happens. You're not just inspired, you're empowered to do something, and that can make all the difference in the world, which, of course, is literally what it's doing."
"Gary Haugen and International Justice Mission have helped ignite an inspiring movement of Christians fighting oppression around the globe. In so doing they have recaptured the spirit of great saints such as Carey and Wilberforce, who saw the gospel as good news both for now and for eternity. Read this book at your peril, and don't be surprised if you get swept up in the sacred cause and one day hear the Master say, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.'"
"Justice—the life-giving use of power in all relationships—is essential to God's joyful vision for human flourishing. Good News About Injustice points us toward this intention and hope, and motivates us to join God and one another in a passionate and urgent pursuit of this vision. The juggernaut of our own inadequacies on the one hand, and the scale of need on the other, cannot and need not stop us from seeking justice for all our sakes, especially those violently oppressed by unjust people and systems."
"When I read the stories and the successes of God's intervening justice on behalf of the abused and seemingly forgotten children created in his own image, I was aware of both eyes and heart opened afresh to the greatest truth of all—God cares for the forsaken, the abused, the oppressed and those countless numbers denied justice, and he is about making things right. We who believe Holy Scripture know that God will wipe away all tears—in that day. But he is already at work through the passion of those who want to see God's good and fair justice implemented. Gary Haugen's tenth-anniversary edition of Good News About Injustice will break your heart, then will fortify and strengthen it with a desire to see people freed from tyranny and oppression. . . . I highly recommend this book. It's a must-read!"
"Very few books are better after ten years than when they were first published. This is one of them. Its vision has become more relevant, compelling and, most of all, achievable than we ever could have hoped."
"Since its original publication, IJM President Gary Haugen's Good News About Injustice has awakened the church to God's passion for justice and inspired a new generation to join the battle against slavery and violent oppression and for the human rights of all people. . . . Good News About Injustice is a clarion call for Christians to share God's heart for justice and to show up where the world needs them most—among those fighting for their lives and the most basic of rights.
"How so many of us Bible-loving disciples have missed God's passion for justice that is plain on innumerable pages of Scripture is a tragic mystery. God has used this classic to open the eyes of the blind and to ignite a movement of prayer and action to join him on his mission of releasing the oppressed. Read it and be changed."
"Few books deserve to be called 'life-shaping.' This book warrants that description! Through personal stories, biblical insights, humor and passion it makes God's call for us to 'do justice' accessible, attractive and compelling. You can't sit still or be the same after reading this book. You can't help but want to pray, call out and act. You can't help but embrace doing justice as the everyday, ordinary work of all the people of God."
"This book is a primer on caring, on following Jesus with our actions. It is a road map to help us navigate a fallen world. When I think about the joy-filled if still uncomfortable journey I have been on in the last several years, the places I've gone and people I've met in an effort to act out a faith I am still trying to understand, I point to this book as the starting place. Will you please read it?"
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CONTENTS

Foreword by John Stott
Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments

Part One: Taking Up the Challenge
1 The Rage in Rwanda: A Suburban Christian Confronts Genocide
2 Preparing the Mind and Spirit Through Scripture
3 Champions of Justice: Three Courageous Christians

Part Two: Hope Amid Despair: God's Four Affirmations About Justice
4 Hope in the God of Justice
5 Hope in the God of Compassion
6 Hope in the God of Moral Clarity
7 Hope in the God of Rescue: An Action Plan

Part Three: Real-World Tools for Rescuing the Oppressed
8 Answers for Difficult Questions: God and Injustice
9 Anatomy of Injustice: Violence and Deception
10 Investigating the Deceptions
11 Intervening for the Victims
12 Case by Case: Strategies to Stand for "the One"
13 The Body of Christ in Action: What We All Can Do

Appendix 1: Reflection and Discussion Guide
Appendix 2: Suggested Internet Sites
Appendix 3: Justice Scripture Verses
Appendix 4: Book Resource Guide
Appendix 5: Advice to Students Considering an International HumanRights Career
Additional Resources for Study and Reflection
Notes

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ABOUT Gary A. Haugen

Gary A. Haugen

Gary A. Haugen is CEO and founder of International Justice Mission (IJM), a global human rights agency based in Washington, DC. Before founding IJM in 1997, Haugen was a human rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He is also the author of The Locust Effect, Terrify No More, and Just Courage.

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