Christy McHugh– Christy finishes our Justice series looking at how conversations about justice can get murky and muddy at times, mainly because there are many different drivers and values that impact what it is we mean by the word justice. As ones who follow the ways of Jesus, where we are seeking his Kingdom, his rule and his reign - we want our picture of justice to be undergirded by what he says Justice is, not by what culture says justice should be.

Righteousness and Justice are inextricably linked. We can not understand one without the other. Righteousness is right relatedness, justice is the action taken to restore right relatedness. God is a relational God and there are 4 core relationships that were impacted by the fall, our relationship with God, self, others and creation. So justice is the action taken to restore these 4 relationships back into wholeness, into alignment, into right relatedness.