China’s President Xi Jinping has ramped up the persecution of Christian pastors and lay leaders while removing crosses and even destroying church buildings that the state had sanctioned. Pastor Joseph Gu Yuese from the Zhejiang province was leading a 10,000 member state-approved church when the government recently jailed him on embezzlement charges. The pastor had… Continue reading Chinese Central Government Orders Arrest of Pastors and Destruction of Churches
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Social Injustice Definition
Humanitarian aid has generally clothed itself in the mantle of so-called social justice. The world has bought into the concept that, while human rights refers to equal opportunity, social justice refers to equal outcome and social injustice means unequal outcome.
The world’s idea of social justice is typically understood in terms of government-mandated redistribution of wealth and resources. This is why so many governmental and non-governmental agencies seek complete eradication of poverty, disease, and injustice.
This popular view of social justice actually propagates social injustices.
The Bible tells us that we will never eradicate poverty. (See Matthew 26:11, Mark 14:7, and John 12:8). It is also clear that diseases will continue as part of the curse of sin and describes diseases and plagues to come during the future Time of Jacob’s Trouble.
Which leads us to the Biblical perspective of social justice.
Our Christian mandate is not to eliminate disparities in society. It is to identify those disparities, then to minister with compassion and conviction to those in need on an individual basis.
James 1:27 explains that,
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”
We know that the Word of God is the truth. Jesus asked the Father to “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” (John 17:17) There is, therefore, no debate over what we are to hold fast to. It is God’s Word that is the “lamp to my feet and the light to my path” that we should follow.