Here’s a campaign from Tearfund that’s right up our street at Joy in Enough. Tearfund believe that churches can be a powerful agent of change, and The Restorative Revolution is “a movement of the church to transform wealth, power and communities for a flourishing world”.
It builds on their previous work on the idea of a restorative economy, which Tearfund first set out in 2015. “In a restorative economy,” says the research report, “each of us has sufficient economic agency and power to meet our basic needs – but not at the expense of other people or the natural world. This means that no one can have too much or too little. It means the earth’s life-support systems – the animals, plants and ecosystems that we all rely on – are protected, not overstretched or harmed.”
That’s not how the world currently looks, which means action on three fronts: rebalancing power, rebalancing wealth, and restoring the natural world. All of this fits within the framework of God’s plans for restoration and renewal, and churches can explore the issues through a series of six Bible studies that can be downloaded here.
Here’s a video introduction to the programme, with more details here:
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