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Social Justice Has Always Been Part of the Church
Those who think that social justice has no part of the church, or worse, that it is a “danger” to evangelicalism, must have forgotten church history.
In the summer of 2018, a group of conservative American evangelicals, led by Grace Community Pastor John McArthur, saw a need to educate the world that there’s a “dangerous” trend growing in the American church. This trend is so dangerous they felt a need to draft a formal document, to be signed by all those who believe in the “real” meaning of scripture, to stand firm in their belief and fight against this dangerous movement.
The movement is not sexual harassment. It’s not pedophilia. Nor is it spousal abuse, or any number of issues that are rampant in the church and one could argue are empirically more detrimental—not just to the church, but society itself.
No, the dangers these men and women see that is so egregious that a formal international statement was needed is (wait for it) social justice. (WTF!) That’s right. Social justice. So, the Statement of Social Justice and the Gospel was formed.
In the opening paragraph of their home page, it states:
In view of questionable sociological, psychological, and…
