Sojourners Verse and Voice – 17 December 2021

Verse of the day
How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

– 1 John 3:17-18

Voice of the day
The Christian social witness is achieved only insofar as Christians are deeply implicated in the real life of society — in unions and political clubs and citizen groups and the like; it is not made by Christian people gathering off by themselves in a parish house to study and discuss social issues.

– William Stringfellow, A Private and Public Faith (1962)

Prayer of the day May I act in your love and use my abilities to help shape a more just world.