Alternative Globalization Addressing Peoples and Earth
Alternative Globalization Addressing Peoples and Earth
Alternative Globalization Addressing Peoples and Earth
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5. PART<br />
37<br />
5.TRANSFORMATIVE<br />
ACTION AND LIVING<br />
ALTERNATIVES<br />
I appeal to you therefore, brothers <strong>and</strong> sisters, by the<br />
mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living<br />
sacrifice, holy <strong>and</strong> acceptable to God, which is your<br />
spiritual worship.<br />
Be not conformed to the structures of this world, but be<br />
transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you<br />
may discern what is the will of God - what is good <strong>and</strong><br />
acceptable <strong>and</strong> perfect.<br />
5.1 Lived alternatives<br />
(Rom. 12:1-2)<br />
Transformation compels us as churches to move beyond the difficult but<br />
conceivable to imagine, discover, embrace <strong>and</strong> embody the truly liberating,<br />
<strong>and</strong> then to make the liberating become the possible. Breaking free from<br />
the death-dealing paradigm of neoliberal globalization, we espouse a lifeaffirming<br />
vision of the “oikoumene” - an earth community where all peoples<br />
live in just relationships with each other, with all creation <strong>and</strong> with God.<br />
Hebrews 12 reminds us that we are “surrounded by a great cloud of witness”.<br />
These witnesses not only help us to discern the truth of the present<br />
economic system, but also inspire us to remember that creating alternatives<br />
to the existing world order is a task true to the very nature of the church.<br />
The church is called not to conform to the structures of injustice, but to<br />
herald a new creation. The biblical vision bursts forth with the
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