Okay, I’m going to choose to laugh. We all know that occasionally good people get attacked for doing good. And churches get attacked sometimes just like synagogues and others just for their beliefs and faith families. But once in a while you hear an attack that has to be laughed at. There is no other choice unless you want to mourn and panic to death. This is a topper.
A TV, radio and internet star “news” guy has been
attacking churches for their
advocacy of justice.
You may actually run into friends who ask you whether your church advocates “social justice” or “economic justice”. They may turn pale if you say yes!
If you take the call to justice out of the prophetic books in the Bible, they would be maybe 80% shorter. It is the primary issue in books like Amos, Hosea, Micah, and many more. John the Baptist raises the issue; Jesus indicates it is the primary matter in the separating of the sheep from the goats. And now we have Glenn Beck saying we should only go to churches where everyone wants to be a goat.
We would have a waaaay different Bible and waaaaaaay different message if we took justice out of it. “What does the Lord require of you, but that you do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God”? (Micah 6:8). I’ve been a Republican Christian, and I’ve been a Democrat Christian, but may God never leave me, so I may never be a justice-free Christian! And you too!
Do well
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