One of the great minor precepts of the Presbyterian church is the fact that it is committed to seeking justice for all persons. To expound on that is the idea they hold that true justice and love together form a single truth. That is to say that perfect Love also equates perfect Justice.
To this end they also give that thought teeth by likening themselves to something that Reinhold Niebuhr wrote; "Love without power simply surrenders the world to power without love."
In other words not only are we trying to functionally create this sense of justice in the world we also must try to adhere to this simple yet difficult idea as best as we possibly can. We must also, in some sense, strive for the power, the purpose, the vehicle, with which we can carry out these ideas.
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