Core Values

Centered in and Inspired by God

E4J is a network of followers of Creator God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, who seek to be connected, inspired and compliant to the Will of God. Collectively, we desire to let God inspire our actions to provide viable change in our personal lives that will affect the communities we represent and the systems we engage.

Evangelicals4Justice: Mission Statement and Core Values

Theological Reflection

• Commitment to have our activism informed and influenced by our reflections on God’s words, the movement of the Holy Spirit, and the counsel of the body of Christ.
  Spiritual Formation
• Commitment to practice the disciplines practiced by our Lord and encouraged by the Scripture: prayer, fasting, Sabbath, giving, fellowship of believers, studying and meditating on the Scripture, solitude and silence, etc.
  Passionate Disciples
• Fervent pursuit of Jesus, and commitment to fulfill His Purpose. Unrelenting submission to the Lordship Christ and seeing Truth applied in this World.

Biblically Rooted

• Commitment to the centrality of Scripture to our mission and values. We understand the scripture to be vital for our individual and collective inspiration.

Holiness and Humility

• We recognize our unique call, as followers of Jesus to be salt and light. We work out that call through our words and behaviors in this world seeking to be obedient as prescribed by the Holy text.

Contextual Approach

• Intentional commitment to discern the issues facing our world using contextual approaches as opposed to a systematic approach. We will embrace the distinct needs and issues of each challenge; mindful of historical, cultural, and geographical sensitivities.

Prayer and Intercession

• Commitment to realize our first line of engagement is to communicate our concerns to God. We understand that if any change would occur it will be because we have sought and embraced God’s counsel and instruction.

 

Leadership Development
E4J is the collaborative effort of a collective of leaders, including: thought leaders, faith leaders, and leaders in civil society. We are dedicated to reflecting the kind of leadership exercised by Creator God in Genesis and by the person of Jesus in the Gospels—leadership fundamentally characterized by love.

Leadership sharing

• We are committed to shared leadership through consensus decision-making, sharing of skills, and promoting the inclusion of all voices in guiding the mission and program of the organization. A commitment to leading in a way that honors the image of God in each other and in those we lead.

Evangelicals4Justice: Mission Statement and Core Values

Loving relationship

• We are committed to considering each other, not only as colleagues and partners, but also as sisters and brothers in Christ. In the context of Christian community, our leadership will be characterized by love.
• We are committed to speaking the truth; always for the purpose of building up the body and each other.

Mentoring /leadership development

● We are committed to raising up the next generation of evangelical leaders to work out Evangelicals 4 Justice’s mission and core values in a way that speaks to the needs, values, and issues of their generation.

Transparency

● We are committed to the biblical call to live “in the light” (1 John 1:5-10). As a result we will exercise transparency in all leadership processes.

Mutual Accountability

● We are committed to holding ourselves accountable to each other, to those we lead, and to the church at large for the values we are committed to.

A learning community

● We are committed to growing together in wisdom, understanding, and knowledge of our faith and how it works out in relationship to God, each other, and in the public square.

Rooted in Diverse Community
Although E4J is a collection of peoples from many ethnicities, vocations and places, central to our work together is a common commitment to our Creator as experienced within the broad scope of human diversity and set within the rest of the community of creation. It is our desire to realize a just and restored creation via the fullest possible expression of the manifold gifts of the Spirit moving us toward justice, righteousness, mercy and humility within the human community. In so doing, we believe we journey rightly toward an experience of the fully reconciled work of Jesus – shalom.

Intra-ethnic, inter-ethnic and anti-racist

● Through a full exploration of our own human identity, we are better able to contribute to and receive from others while simultaneously combating the extreme expressions of ethno-centrism and racism.

Authentic Reconciliation of all Creation

● We are co-laborers and reconcilers of all of creation to its Creator; the work of Jesus is fully realized only when an authentic experience of changed relationship is its outcome.
Evangelicals4Justice: Mission Statement and Core Values

Forgiveness and Mercy

● Having been the recipients of benevolence, authenticity obliges us to demonstrate forgiveness that shows mercy and invites reconciliation.

Contextualization

● Ethnic superiority frames the primal human error of perceiving deity in our own image; contextualizing the Good News points us toward shalom where humans possess the image and likeness of the Creator.

Justice in all Relationships within Creation

● We are called to right relationship with our Creator and with one another in the human community, including: between men and women, within families, communities, and institutions and between nations – and to live in right relatedness with the rest of creation.
Grassroots organizing
● Our focus is on cultivating ideas for change into the foundations of our societies resulting in an expanded impact on unjust and self-serving policies and structures which degrade created relationships.