If You Believe in Just Mercy, You’ll Do More Than Buy a Ticket to Just Mercy

From Think Christian:

“Jesus demonstrated what it means to put down our privilege and choose the self-sacrificial way of love. Through his humanity, Jesus teaches us a new way of being human: moving toward suffering, offering mercy, demanding justice.

“This is about all of us,” declares one of the posters for Just Mercy. While the film tells the particular story of Bryan Stevenson and Walter McMillian, it is a universal story of brokenness, mercy, and restoration. It is only in rightly seeing ourselves and our own need for mercy that we can begin to move toward the suffering of others. Just Mercy challenges the notion that Christianity is to be a suffering-free religion. The movie reminds us that our modern desire to avoid suffering impedes our ability to do justice, to truly love our neighbors, and live into the self-sacrificial love of Christ.”

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