A while back a fellow Christian told me they had read Robin DiAngelo’s book White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. At the time I knew very little about it for better or worse. Since then, the book title and author continued to pop up in literature I read on …
Reason #5, Social Justice is Not the Work of the Church We have come to this final lesson in the series – Social Justice: A Christian Perspective. In Lesson 1, a comprehensive definition of social justice was provided along with the biblical definition of justice; we noticed there is a big difference! Based on these …
Reason #4, Victimhood The American social justice movements today are immense diversions leading people away from thinking about Jesus and believing the gospel. One of their diversional tactics is to foster a victimhood mentality and a sense of entitlement. When a person lays claim to victimhood a barrier is erected preventing him from taking responsibility …
Reason #3, Social Justice Perverts Biblical Justice (audio below) In this broken world men collaborate to decide what is moral and just for society. In order to reverse the “hierarchy of oppression,” the Seattle City Council proposed legislation to dismiss what they are calling “crimes of poverty.” The theory is that society has condemned the …
Reason #2, Discontentment & Bitterness On June 2, 2020 two record industry executives, Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang, sparked the Black Out Tuesday movement in order to encourage people to strengthen their knowledge of the social, political and economic plight in America. They were fighting for “long standing racism and inequality that exists from the …