Alternative Globalization Addressing Peoples and Earth

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• Taking a faith stance when the powers of injustice and destruction
question the very integrity of the gospel; confessing their faith by
saying a clear “NO!” to powers and principalities;
• Participating in the communion (koinonia) of the Triune God for
fullness of life;
• Sharing the suffering and pain of the people and the earth in company
with the Spirit, who is groaning with the whole creation (Romans
8:22-23);
• Covenanting for justice in life together with peoples and other
creatures of God; and
• Being in solidarity with the suffering people and the earth, and in
resistance to powers of injustice and destruction.
As faithful people of God, churches together become a movement,
embracing spiritualities of life for the whole earth community. This implies
bearing witness to the dynamic and creative Spirit of God in the universe.
In each historical moment, faithfulness to such a calling requires critical
self-examination. Where we are accomplices with systems of domination
and injustice, we need to repent. The ministries of preaching the gospel
and celebrating the sacraments can be compromised when churches are
complicit with systemic injustice and the exploitation of life. In this sense,
the role of the churches in the face of neoliberal globalization is not
exclusively a question of prophetic ministry and social justice in the service
of life. In fact, the task goes to the heart of the evangelical vocation of the
churches themselves: to mediate God’s call to repent from sin and death
and to embrace the reign of God and its justice and life for all.
Churches are challenged to join in the struggle for justice by resisting unjust
and destructive powers and by working to build an AGAPE society across
religious faiths, cultures and social movements, whether the struggle is
local, regional, continental or global.
Faithfulness requires that we confront our fears and seek to be liberated
from our captivity. Churches must be communities of hope, offering new
visions of life, dispelling despair among the people and invoking the power
of the renewing Spirit. Let us become, by God’s grace, the faithful
communion of saints that proclaims the gospel of love and justice, and
jubilee for the whole earth.
Throughout the world, there are people who have refused to be captured
by neoliberalism; people who are finding new ways to survive the crises
that the neoliberal globalization has provoked; people who have exercised
the God-given right to say “no” and who have taken back control of their