Comments on: Social Justice and Social Capital http://thejustlife.org/home/2006/01/25/social-justice-and-social-capital/ To be saved cost us nothing...to be a disciple costs us everything. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tim http://thejustlife.org/home/2006/01/25/social-justice-and-social-capital/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Tim Sun, 19 Feb 2006 02:15:00 +0000 http://justpraxis.com/blog/?p=22#comment-9 Social Justice, this Blog and WC are not about political/partisan faux solutions like government redistribution (Socialism/Communism). Social Justice, this Blog and WC are about a CALL TO ACTION FOR CHRISTIANS to live, teach and impart the total restoration that Christ brought us! It is high time that Christians got up off of their blessed assurance and out of their godly boy recliners and started acting like they serve, love and worship a God that has a little bit of power. (2 Tim 3:5) You know the God, the One who created the universe with the spoken word that now lives inside every Christian. Yeah, that one. Social Justice, this Blog and WC are not about political/partisan faux solutions like government redistribution (Socialism/Communism).

Social Justice, this Blog and WC are about a CALL TO ACTION FOR CHRISTIANS to live, teach and impart the total restoration that Christ brought us!

It is high time that Christians got up off of their blessed assurance and out of their godly boy recliners and started acting like they serve, love and worship a God that has a little bit of power. (2 Tim 3:5) You know the God, the One who created the universe with the spoken word that now lives inside every Christian. Yeah, that one.

]]> By: Tim http://thejustlife.org/home/2006/01/25/social-justice-and-social-capital/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Tim Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:22:00 +0000 http://justpraxis.com/blog/?p=22#comment-8 Governmental redistribution is not an answer. It oppresses those it intends to help by giving hand outs and not a hand up (think of a 30 year old still living at home). It is unbiblical. Prov 6:10; 2 Thess 3:10 "whoever does not work, should not eat." It steals resources from Christians that they could use to be distributed in a manner without God. Christ did not say, "Your government should minister to the poor." He said we as individuals should. It is clearly the responsibility of the church not the government in the Bible. Governmental redistribution is elitists stating that it is not their job or responsibility to help the poor. Jesus specifically commands us otherwise. Saying the government has a responsibility to cure poverty in effect says that your God is not big enough!!! Governmental redistribution is not an answer.

It oppresses those it intends to help by giving hand outs and not a hand up (think of a 30 year old still living at home).

It is unbiblical. Prov 6:10; 2 Thess 3:10 “whoever does not work, should not eat.”

It steals resources from Christians that they could use to be distributed in a manner without God.

Christ did not say, “Your government should minister to the poor.” He said we as individuals should. It is clearly the responsibility of the church not the government in the Bible. Governmental redistribution is elitists stating that it is not their job or responsibility to help the poor. Jesus specifically commands us otherwise.

Saying the government has a responsibility to cure poverty in effect says that your God is not big enough!!!

]]> By: Barb http://thejustlife.org/home/2006/01/25/social-justice-and-social-capital/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Barb Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:31:00 +0000 http://justpraxis.com/blog/?p=22#comment-7 I guess I believe there needs to be both - social and financial redistribution. Neither one will address the huge problems we face alone. On an individual, church, community level we need to be responsible, but we also need a government that is responsive to the overwhelming needs of people, which I don't believe it is - other than to an elite few. I guess I believe there needs to be both – social and financial redistribution. Neither one will address the huge problems we face alone. On an individual, church, community level we need to be responsible, but we also need a government that is responsive to the overwhelming needs of people, which I don’t believe it is – other than to an elite few.

]]> By: Tim http://thejustlife.org/home/2006/01/25/social-justice-and-social-capital/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Tim Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:52:00 +0000 http://justpraxis.com/blog/?p=22#comment-6 Sounds like you nailed it! I attended the AIDS & Global Poverty event tonight. They need to understand social justice. There was a ton of compassion in the room (let's have a garage sale to send money to the orphans) but no commitment to structual change. "Incarnate Integration & Investment", isn't that the way Jesus did it? Is the example He set that hard to see? Sounds like you nailed it!

I attended the AIDS & Global Poverty event tonight. They need to understand social justice. There was a ton of compassion in the room (let’s have a garage sale to send money to the orphans) but no commitment to structual change.

“Incarnate Integration & Investment”, isn’t that the way Jesus did it? Is the example He set that hard to see?

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