May 27th: a small group of us had lunch with legendary American Christian political activist Jim Wallis. Whether you entirely agree with Jim's politics (or his theology), it is hard to deny that he is one of the most enduring and effective voices on the U.S. scene right now.I wrote an article summarising our conversations for the the 24-7 UK website. You can read it here, but it ends as follows:
"24-7 started by praying for the lost; we soon found ourselves propelled onto the streets of Ibiza and Macedonia and Manchester. We started praying for the poor; we felt compelled to go to addicts in Vancouver and prostitutes in Boystown. Now we are feeling a growing sense of urgency to pray for parliament and government. It doesn’t take a grade 1 prophet to work out what happens next. Our vision is ‘to transform the world through movements and communities of Christ centred, mission minded prayer’. We know that politics on its own is not the key to transforming the world, but it looks like it’s definitely going to be a part of the mix."
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