Prophetic Lament A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soongchan Rah

Prophetic Lament A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soongchan Rah

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When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first full sermon series was a six-week exposition of the book of Lamentations. Preaching on an obscure, depressing Old Testament book was probably not the most seeker-sensitive way to launch a church. But it shaped their community witha radically countercultural perspective.

The American church avoids lament. But lament is a missing, essential component of Christian faith. Lament recognizes struggles and suffering, that the world is not as it ought to be. Lament challengesthe status quo and cries out for justice against existing injustices.

Soong-Chan Rah's prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church's relationship with a suffering world. Itcritiques our success-centered triumphalism and calls us to repent of our hubris. And it opens up new ways to encounter the other. Hear the prophet's lament as the necessary corrective for Christianity's future.

A Resonate exposition of the book of Lamentations.

Soong-Chan Rah (ThD, Duke University) is a well-known speaker and a leading figure in the evangelical social justice movement today. Milton B. is his name. Engebretson is the Engebretson Professor of Church Development and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, and the author of Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church (winner of an Outreach magazine book award) and The New Evangelicalism. Rah was the founding pastor of Cambridge Community Fellowship Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a multiethnic, urban, postmodern generation church. Sojourners, the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA), World Vision, and the Catalyst Leadership Center are all on his board of directors.