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ACTIVISM

In their book, Shine: Make them Wonder What You’ve Got, The Newsboys wrestle with the issue of crossing the line between bearing a positive Christian witness and hurting the cause with Christian activism, they write, “There is certainly a need to exercise our social and political freedoms. But the difficult question then becomes, how much have we really achieved? Have we illuminated the light of Christ in society so that it is changing people's hearts and making a significant difference in their lives? Or have we traded changing hearts for merely changing laws—as good as those laws may be?

We have asserted our prerogative to be part of the culture. Yet have we made ourselves just one more special interest group striving to be heard? We must ask if we have fought for our rights to proclaim the Gospel only to become another subculture in society rather than ‘a holy nation, a people belonging to God, who declare the praises of Him who has called us out of darkness into His wonderful light.’”

—Shine, p. 34-35 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

Matthew 5:16 KJV “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”

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