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I heard injustice cry from the trafficked woman who stood beside me at a train station in Asia, her pimp glaring from a few feet away. Everything within me wanted to grab her hand and rescue her. \u201cJust grab her and run,\u201d was all I could think. But our conversation ended abruptly, and I don\u2019t know where she is today.<\/span><\/p>\n

I heard injustice cry out on the edge of an African village as 10-year-old girls were \u201ccircumcised\u201d as part of a village tradition. The village women sang in celebration, and my heart split between anger and compassion. The need for justice and the Gospel weighed heavy on my soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot be silent,\u201d wrote Lottie Moon, the nineteenth-century Southern Baptist missionary who helped inspire the international missions offering that carries her name today. And I feel a similar\u00a0 urgency myself. Writing as if she were a wartime correspondent, Lottie sent dispatches from the front lines. Her provocative letters asked the church to courageously send reinforcements to advance the Gospel and to compassionately give aid to those dealing with oppression. Her words were a mere whisper of the thunderous life she lived: \u201cThe needs of these people press upon my soul, and I cannot be silent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This woman who blazed a trail in another century still teaches today.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Be a voice for the voiceless.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lottie entered China to teach women and school-aged girls. It wasn\u2019t long before she collided with injustice in the Chinese culture, specifically the ancient practice of foot-binding. The custom entailed bending a young girl\u2019s toes downward until her foot doubled and binding them tightly until they broke. The tighter, the better. The agonizing pain resulted in a deformed, three-inch foot believed to attract better marriage prospects and a higher social status. To a groom, \u201cIt is much more important for her to have small feet than a pretty face,\u201d Lottie wrote. \u201cAs to education, that is neither desired nor expected.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lottie spoke out, encouraging parents to unbind their daughter\u2019s feet and allow them to go to school. And for 40 years, Lottie lived among people whose needs altered between poverty, disease, war, persecution, famine, and the results of human atrocities. She met injustice face to face with relentless love and the truth of the Gospel. Her resolve to persist on the frontlines nearly 150 years ago inspires me to tenaciously wrestle with injustice and the Gospel in my world today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Lottie\u2019s example teaches me about injustice and the Gospel.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. We must live in the tension of injustice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lottie proclaimed the Gospel while ministering to broken people wrapped in the brutality of injustice. The inner tension she felt was thick. She knew that unbinding the feet of a young girl came with risks. A girl with unbound feet may have become an outcast, rejected by her family.<\/span><\/p>\n

But with feet bound, girls suffered excruciating pain, were susceptible to infection and death, and would likely become uneducated child brides. As many of us would, Lottie wrestled through her options. \u201cHas the time come, and are we strong enough to make a decided stand on the question of foot-binding?\u201d she asked. \u201cShall we make it a rule that all who come in (to school) shall unbind their feet?\u201d Injustice binds, the Gospel sets free, and we must relentlessly minister in the tension between the two. Let us not shrink in the face of injustice but courageously fight injustice with a Gospel-informed response.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Righting a wrong of injustice is not redemptive. Christ\u2019s presence and power is.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Gospel breeds injustice-fighters, but fighting injustice is not necessarily proclaiming the Gospel. We are called to defend against the assault of injustice while introducing God as the one who \u201cheals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds\u201d (Psalms 147:3). After years of attempting to right the wrong of foot-binding, Lottie wrote of one student who chose to follow Christ but \u201cwas forced to marry into a heathen family. They used every effort to induce her to recant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But she would not. Her husband destroyed her Bible and demanded she leave her faith. Unrelenting, this woman fervently prayed. Twenty years later her husband chose to follow Christ. Not long after his conversion, she \u201cprayed about the unbinding of her daughters\u2019 feet, and when she spoke of it to her husband, she could scarcely believe her ears that he promptly consented.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It was Christ in him that changed his perspective of right and wrong. Injustice and brokenness dwell where God\u2019s name and glory does not. But, when His name is present, God has the power to redeem and restore justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Injustice dwells where truth does not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Injustice will continue as long as the truth is suppressed (Romans 1:18). As believers, we don\u2019t just inform people of truth, we introduce them to truth by being a living example of Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n

When we introduce people to the Word, \u201cmany hearts are stirred,\u201d wrote Lottie, \u201cbut these newly awakened souls are bound in the chains of old habits\u2026. Now what these people need \u2014 next to grace of God in their hearts \u2014 is to see the life of Jesus Christ set before them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We can\u2019t just do good. We must love people enough to live as a tangible gospel witness among them \u2014 yes, live among the impoverished, the diseased, the broken, the displaced, and the dejected. We can declare truth when we dwell among injustice.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Injustice is uprooted when we share the story of reconciliation.<\/span><\/p>\n

As believers, we understand justice differently because we\u2019ve been justified. Our story has been redeemed by our reconciliation to God through Jesus Christ. Injustice is often tethered to a belief \u2014 a story \u2014 that\u2019s a deeply rooted worldview, passed down through Generations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cultures may place their identity in such beliefs, anchored in religion, tradition, or societal expectations. We cannot change the narrative of a culture without giving them a better story to believe. Through Jesus Christ, God reconciled the world to Himself and entrusted us as \u201cmessengers of reconciliation\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:19).<\/span><\/p>\n

6. We can\u2019t love the Gospel and not have compassion for the broken in need of <\/span>the Gospel.<\/p>\n

Ironically, a year and a half before Lottie died, she was still writing of injustice and oppression as famine claimed the lives of many around her. She wrote of men collapsing on the side of the road, their sacks of grain still beside them as they died of starvation on their way back to their families. She told of mothers sending their children away from home, just hoping someone would feed them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lottie fell in love with the Chinese people, and the Chinese people fell in love with her. When she died, her Chinese friends carved in Chinese letters on a plaque, \u201cLottie Moon.\u201d\u00a0 And underneath could be found the phrase, \u201chow she loved us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Check out a new mini-series on <\/span><\/i>At The Table Podcast<\/span><\/i><\/a>, where Lori and Jacki discuss some of the pressing questions around women and leadership. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I heard injustice cry from the trafficked woman who stood beside me at a train station in Asia, her pimp glaring from a few feet away. Everything within me wanted to grab her hand and rescue her. \u201cJust grab her and run,\u201d was all I could think. 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