To perpetrate justice is to wound God, himself.
--John Calvin

Nicholas Wolterstorff writes that we must "create in our students a disposition toward Shalom"-We must be educated through reasoning, modeling, discipline, and empathy so that we actually desire justice. Ultimately, this dispostion toward Shalom (which is much more than peace--Cornelius Plantinga describes it as "the webbing together of God, humans, and all creation in justice, fulfillment, and delight...") can only be cultivated by an understanding of the gospel.

God's heart is for the broken, down-trodden, weary, burdened, and opppressed--God cares for the poor and the widow, the orphan, and the sojourner.

I am all of these things.

Christ's saving grace has been extended to me. Can my knowledge of this radical grace then leave me in a state of apathy toward others? My transformation has been one of spiritual poverty into spiritual fullness, and now I live and act as a healer and restorer of Shalom in our world (both in a physical and spiritual sense) as evidence of the richness that I nnow have in Christ.

It would be a contradiction in terms if my knowledge of God's love for me did not move me into action.