The World Is Not Ours to Save: Finding the Freedom to Do Good

by Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

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The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Christianity and Culture)2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year (Compassion)We want to save the world-and we have a dizzying array of worthy causes to pursue.But passionate enthusiasm can quickly give way to disillusionment, compassion fatigue or empty slacktivism. As we move from awareness to mobilization, we bump up against the complexities of global problems-and liking Facebook pages only goes so far.Veteran activist Tyler Wigg-Stevenson show more identifies the practical and spiritual pitfalls that threaten much of today's cause-driven Christianity show less

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The author, a Christian activist, cautions that we need to step back from cause-based activism and instead seek to follow God's calling for our lives. This will result in kingdom-oriented activism, rather than cause or compassion fatigue.

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