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The Difference between Social Service and Social Action
Quote from John Stott's "New Issues Facing Christians Today"
"There is a need to distinguish between 'social service' and 'social action'.
Social action looks beyond persons to structures, beyond the rehabilitation of prison inmates to the reform of the prison system, beyond relieving human need to removing the causes of human need, beyond works of mercy to the quest for justice, beyond improving factory conditions to securing a more participatory role for the workers, beyond caring for the poor to improving - and when necessary transforming - the economic system and the political system, until it facilitates their liberation from poverty and oppression." We need to engage as well as help. Aid alone will not solve the structural deficits in our world.Libellés : christian, humanitarian, thinking
[The Difference between Social Service and Social Action]
Sngs Alumni @ 10.3.09 { 0 comments }
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