Will you SHOW UP? – new book encouraging us to become decision makers
Yes, it’s election–time, but this book won’t try to get you to vote for a particular party. It isn’t going to try to get you to vote at all. Something far better.
It’s going to show you that you could be voted for. That it could be your name on the ballot paper. Or that you could be working with someone whose name is, influencing your community more than you ever imagined.
From food banks to debt counselling, soup vans to street pastors, the church is doing an amazing job treating the victims of a flawed system. But it’s never going to be enough. Unless we also get involved in the decision–making process.
God cares deeply about the heart of our state, as well as the state of our hearts. And, as Bart Simpson once famously discovered, the vote is won – and history is made, and the kingdom advanced – by those who show up.
You can watch a great animation challenging you to show up here.
Andy is reaching out, inspiring and equipping us to become engaged with a system that affects us deeply, and through which we in turn can effect radical and transformational change across our society.
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
(The book is part of the wider SHOW UP campaign which is supported by 40 different agencies).