Releasing March 2025
The Justice of Jesus:
Reimagining Your Church’s Life Together to Pursue Liberation and Wholeness
Colonization wasn’t just bad for colonized peoples; it was also bad for the Western Church because it shaped us to resist justice for our neighbours on the margins.
This book casts a positive vision for how the Western Church can decolonize our faith by learning from the Global South Church and Church on the Margins. All so that our gospel becomes more like the Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth—good news for people in poverty and oppression.
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“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
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“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
What does Jesus have to do with Justice anyway?
Every Christian with a passion for justice has felt out of place within the Western Church at some point.
Many are left dissatisfied with a truncated, individualistic, soul-salvation-oriented gospel that neglects the physical liberation of oppressed bodies. In The Justice of Jesus, Joash Thomas prophetically illuminates how the Western Church’s narrow version of Christ’s gospel can often be the colonized and oppressive antithesis to the decolonized, communal, and liberating Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth—a brown Jewish refugee (and heretic!) from the wrong part of the country.
Along with this sharp diagnosis, Thomas also provides a hopeful prognosis: local churches everywhere are stepping up to join God in the renewal of all things by seeking systemic justice on behalf of some of the most oppressed people groups globally as part of “the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.”
The Justice of Jesus also provides tangible and practical recommendations on how to faithfully seek systemic justice in our world today by following the way of Jesus.