Christianity achieves credible spirituality when it interacts seriously with the basic issues of humankind — the physical world, human history, human conflicts, society and liberation. Building on these five presuppositions, Stockwell posits that just as Jesus was “intimately related to the struggles of real people,” so to be credible mission today must be involved in the struggle against hunger, the struggle for human rights and the struggle for meaning.
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