{"id":8100,"date":"2018-09-19T14:02:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2018-09-19T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:02:29","slug":"usa-social-justice-and-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8100","title":{"rendered":"USA: Social Justice and the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: Various, via Pat Noble<\/p>\n<p>Have you read the newly published statement <a href=\"https:\/\/statementonsocialjustice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/statementonsocialjustice.com\/\">Social Justice and the Gospel<\/a>? More than 8,000 have signed it. Whether or not we agree or agree completely, I hope we can agree that the conversation is thought-provoking and necessary. Here are a few responses that made my short list of must-reads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From Kevin DeYoung at The Gospel Coalition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/social-justice-gospel-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/social-justice-gospel-issue\/\">Is Social Justice a Gospel Issue?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From Al Mohler, speaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5elrmVgBddU\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5elrmVgBddU\">on social justice<\/a> at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary chapel (37 minutes on YouTube).<\/li>\n<li>From Christianity Today\u2019s Mark Galli, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2018\/september-web-only\/keeping-social-justice-ministries-vibrant.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2018\/september-web-only\/keeping-social-justice-ministries-vibrant.html\">Evangelism Is a Work of Social Justice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micahglobal.org\/sites\/default\/files\/doc\/page\/worship_andjustice_van_opstal_micah_global_2018_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.micahglobal.org\/sites\/default\/files\/doc\/page\/worship_andjustice_van_opstal_micah_global_2018_.pdf\">Worship and Justice: Spirituality that Embodies and Mobilizes for Justice<\/a>. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/globalworship.tumblr.com\/post\/178200578330\/worship-and-justice-spirituality\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/globalworship.tumblr.com\/post\/178200578330\/worship-and-justice-spirituality\">Global Christian Worship<\/a> for pointing me to this. Check out an <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/missio-graphics\/Volume+6\/Mission-Networks-Missiographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/missio-graphics\/Volume+6\/Mission-Networks-Missiographic.pdf\">infographic from MissioNexus<\/a> on networks. I thought it was very informative for making a case for the church being involved in social justice.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing. I am presently in Florida waiting for my grandson to be born and had the opportunity to hang out at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.echonet.org\/core-values-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.echonet.org\/core-values-history\/\">cool place<\/a> that\u2019s all about fighting hunger. Have you heard of them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: Various, via Pat Noble Have you read the newly published statement Social Justice and the Gospel? More than 8,000 have signed it. Whether or not we agree or agree completely, I hope we can agree that the conversation is thought-provoking and necessary. Here are a few responses that made my short list of must-reads: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USA: Social Justice and the Gospel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8101,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions\/8101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}