Justice
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! (Amos 5:24)
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Mark 12:30-31 (NIV)
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[a] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] There is no commandment greater than these.”
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.[a]
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
ACTIVITIES with children to think about injustice
Take a lemon / orange to ask your kids them to "get to know" their lemons. Have them look for any identifying marks, shape, brightness of the lemon, etc. Then, take the fruit, put them in a basket and have the students find their it. Students should not have trouble with this. Next day, peel the same fruit and have the students attempt to find their lemons again in the basket. This will teach them that although we look different on the outside, we are the same on the inside.
Play a game of snakes and ladders and discuss what in life can be snakes and what can be ladders
CREATE with children to pray about injustice
Use the video to make a set of scales. Ask the kids to put objects or stones in one side things that represent ‘situations that are unfair in the world’. To rebalance the scales, pray for each injustice that you put in, and with each prayer, put an object or stone in the other side, until the scales are balanced.