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 PrintableVersion Who says you can't change the world?What about salvation?WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE WORLD? Danny Smith, co-founder of Jubilee Campaign, a 'human rights pressure group, lobbying to protect children's rights and the persecuted church', shares his experience of 'challenging injustice' worldwide. His dramatic style matches well the horrors he tells of: prostitution, torture... and even murder. But Smith's flaky definition of spirituality as 'attitudes of the heart... our response to situations', and of his 'close relationship' with Father Shay Cullen who describes 'working for justice' as 'central to Christianity' gives cause for concern. And more so when, in his foreword, David Alton (co-founder) labels all who are 'Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox' as Christians, stressing that one of the campaign's greatest strengths was that it 'drew heavily on both the evangelical and Catholic traditions'. Traditions?! Catholicism is an entirely different, false religion and we do both Catholics and other non-believers an enormous disservice (in regard to their eternal destiny!) by making a show of spiritual unity, as there is none. 'What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?' (2 Corinthians 6.14-17). As for the work itself, whilst it's truly heartening to hear of street children given refuge, oppressive regimes challenged and justice sought, Christ's call to 'make disciples of all nations' surely involves evangelism? Danny concludes his book with a hope - 'that Jubilee Campaign will continue... to be an instrument of justice'. And as for mine? That Jubilee Campaign might become a true instrument of salvation. YR,
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