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InterVarsity Press
P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515-1426
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2019 by Jake Meador
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from InterVarsity Press.
InterVarsity Pressis the book-publishing division of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, a movement of students and faculty active on campus at hundreds of universities, colleges, and schools of nursing in the United States of America, and a member movement of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. For information about local and regional activities, visit intervarsity.org.
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.
While any stories in this book are true, some names and identifying information may have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals.
Excerpts from The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding are from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot. Copyright 1941, 1942 by T. S. Eliot, renewed 1969, 1970 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Published in association with the literary agent Don Gates of The Gates Group, www.the-gates-group.com.
Cover design: David Fassett
Images: Arnaud Lecamus / 500px / Getty Images
ISBN 978-0-8308-7378-4 (digital)
ISBN 978-0-8308-4554-5 (print)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Meador, Jake, author.
Title: In search of the common good : Christian fidelity in a fractured world
/ Jake Meador.
Description: Downers Grove : InterVarsity Press, 2019. | Includes
bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019007950 (print) | LCCN 2019012623 (ebook) | ISBN
9780830873784 (eBook) | ISBN 9780830845545 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Common good--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Classification: LCC BR115.P7 (ebook) | LCC BR115.P7 M36 2019 (print) | DDC
261.0973--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019007950
TO MY WIFE, JOIE MEADOR
The Vanaukens said it best. If its half as good as the half weve known, heres hail! to the rest of the road.
TO MY PARENTS, ROB AND RUTH MEADOR
You taught me courage, patience, and fidelity. You taught me to love what is good and hate what is evil. You taught me to fight for what is true, even when it hurts and even when it is costly.
TO DAVY JOY MEADOR
May you always be eager, sharp, and devoted to God.
TO ROBERT WENDELL MEADOR
May you always keep faith.
TO AUSTIN FRANCIS MEADOR
May you give yourself to good work.
These are only hints and guesses,
Hints followed by guesses; and the rest
Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action.
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
T. S. ELIOT, THE DRY SALVAGES
Christians should confess their faith in the natural order as the good creation of God. To do this is to acknowledge that there are limits to the employment of technique and limits to the appropriateness of our making. These limits will not be taught us by compassion, but only by the understanding of what God has made, and by a discovery that it is complete, whole, and satisfying.
OLIVER ODONOVAN, BEGOTTEN OR MADE?
I ask all of you, dear brothers and sisters, to view these things that are happening in our historical moment with a spirit of hope, generosity, and sacrifice. If we illuminate with Christian hope our intense longings for justice and peace and all that is good, then we can be sure that no one dies forever. If we have imbued our work with a sense of great faith, love of God, and hope for humanity, then all our endeavors will lead to the splendid crown that is the sure reward for the work of sowing truth, justice, love, and goodness. Our work does not remain here; it is gathered and purified by the Spirit of God and returned to us as a reward.
OSCAR ROMERO, THE SCANDAL OF REDEMPTION
(The) way of life out of and toward communion with God is achieved in the world itself through which we know Him. Luthers idea that God is ever present in masks and mummeries surrounding us on all sides rules out any attempt by man to narrow down reality to manageable proportions; God is everywhere, and vocationcallingis arriving from every direction and in all sorts of ways.
PETER ESCALANTE, PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE: REFORMING THE QUEST FOR WISDOM
I have been an ordained minister for nearly forty-five years. When I entered the ministry, most of the divisions in the church seemed to be doctrinal. There were controversies about the charismatic gifts and Pentecostalism, about the end times and the Second Coming of Christ, about predestination and free will, about the meaning of baptism and the Lords Supper. I entered a Presbyterian denomination in which there was a high degree of consensus on all those issues. Yet today my church, like so many others, is sharply divided, despite the fact that its ministers can agree on a very long and detailed doctrinal statement, the Westminster standards.
So why all the conflict? It is not as much over doctrine as over what our relationship to the culture should be. And as I look around, I see this same division roiling Christian denominations and organizations everywhere.
When my adult lifetime began our society was one where most people felt some social pressure to attend church. It was also one in which much of historic Christian morality was assumed, respected, or at least understood. All that has changed. Today as younger Christian adults live out their livesat work, in college classrooms and dorm rooms, in diversity training sessions at the office, online, or simply consuming the latest television seriesthey realize that they are considered to be extremists (particularly if they speak up).
Not only is mainstream culture moving farther away from Christian beliefs, but it also seems to be weakening and fragmenting. There is enormous dissatisfaction with the political establishments, and people are willing to vote for candidates both right and left that even ten years ago would have been considered too extreme. We have resurgent socialism as well as blood-and-soil populism. US life expectancy has dropped three years in a rowan unprecedented phenomenon outside of wartime. There is agreement that loneliness and isolation, suicide and addiction, are growing alarmingly as community and communities break down.
In this new situation, many of the older Christian models of cultural engagement or political theology seem obsolete. One was pietism, the view that believers should be about winning souls and building up the church, and not about trying to be Christians in politics. But that approach assumes a well-functioning society that doesnt need Christians to support the common good. If society is breaking down, how can you love your neighbor without getting politically involved? And what if your culture comes to
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