Love and Justice, Grace and Justice

Just as the Bible teaches that we must combine grace AND truth (John 1:14), faith 
AND works (James two), so I think we must combine:

* justification AND justice, Romans in a Spanish NT.

* spirituality AND justice, Amos 5 and Isaiah 58.

* freedom AND justice, failure of abolitionist movement.

* love AND justice, Sermon on the Mount.

* grace AND justice, Ephesians 2:8-10 ( think works as justice)
* reconciliation AND justice, John Perkins.

Because justice seldom occurs in English New Testaments (zero times in the KJV, 16 times in the NIV), English speaking people seldom think of justice as a basic and required part of the NT gospel.  Since justice is found around 100 times in a Spanish, French or Latin NT, all English speaking people should learn Spanish, French or Latin.  German is almost as good so German will do.  The NEB makes an excellent translation of Matthew 6:33:  "Set your mind on God's kingdom and his justice."

Stan Key has written a tract/booklet titled "The Most Important Word in the Bible"; he referring to the AND in John 1:14 "grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."  Key asserts "Grace without truth is sentimentalism.  Truth without grace is a sledge hammer."

* Justification without justice is half the gospel.

* Spirituality without justice is a self-deceptive pious platitude.

* Freedom without justice is illusory because quickly oppressors will reinvent, redesign a new system of oppression and freedom will again be lost.  Think from slavery to segregation.

* Love without justice is shallow, not much more than charity which will not end systems of oppression.  Think Methodism.

* Grace without justice is only half the gospel.

* Reconciliation without justice is only half the gospel; it may satisfy whites but not blacks.

Half a gospel allows oppression to go on and on and on, crushing, humiliating, animalizing, impoverishing, enslaving and killing human beings created in the image of God.