Is John MacArthur Right About Social Justice? (Part 6 of 6) "If I criticize somebody, it’s because I have higher hopes for the world, something good to replace the bad.” Mort Sahl At long last we’ve come to my final rant contesting John MacArthur’s sermon series on “Social Justice and the Gospel.” In this series …
Words and Works
Most people who don’t follow Jesus haven’t yet been fully introduced to him. That’s our job, to make an adequate introduction through words and works. By the way, Jesus did NOT say, “They will see your good looks and glorify your Father in heaven.” It’s not our good looks that verify that ours is a …
Is Justice a “Gospel” Thing?
Is John MacArthur Right About Social Justice? (Part 5 of 6) We don’t have two gospels. We don’t have a spiritual gospel and a social gospel, or a salvation gospel and a social justice gospel. . . Jesus binds the spiritual and social into a seamless fabric that shouldn’t be torn in two. Donald Kraybill …
Our Loss, Their Gain
It’s likely that most people that I meet in the street assume that I’m just an old middle-class white guy who has had an easy life and that my faith just makes my smooth life smoother. (Not true. I’m not that “old”!) I think that beat-down people assume that Christianity only works for people whose …
It Takes A Breaking
Watchman Nee taught that the release of the inner man’s potential is contingent on the breaking of the outer man, which usually occurs through suffering. Compassion tends to seep out through the cracks created by hard blows and attaches itself to other damaged people. Our humanity-wide shared spiritual poverty is the lowest common denominator between …
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