What is Christian social justice?

For starters: I believe that Christian attention to social justice is not about “fixing” a faulty political system or about raising cultural morals but is about bridging the gap sin has created in human relationships. Christian Social Justice, in order to be uniquely Christian, must function independent of any specific political system or cultural schema. Social justice issues address the inequalities within our society but these broken relationships are not particular to our culture or government. These fractures in our relationship to one another saturate the fallen human condition and it is within that breach, with the full knowledge of its supernatural nature (Eph 6:12), that we as Christians are to stand — and doing so is Christian Social Justice.

So how then shall we equip and support one another with practical ways to stand in the breach and live for justice?

Is involvement in social justice simply about signing up with existing programs? I would say no, and echo these words: “God wants us to relieve suffering, pursue justice, facilitate reconciliation, and free the heart to love, but He desires for us to do so in a way that reveals His Character. It is not enough just to do well for others or to do things well. We must do well in our unique way in order to reveal the vast creativity of a God who loves to bring change through the most unlikely channels.”