Social justice vs. kingdom work

The Chistian Chronicle ^ | The March 2013 Edition | Bobby Ross, Jr.

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AT A NATIONAL MEETING of youth ministers, the key role of the local church is emphasized.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Love Jesus.

Tolerate the church.

At a time when Americans’ confidence in organized religion has hit a 40-year low, that mindset seems particularly prevalent among younger Christians.

At the recent National Conference on Youth Ministries, Scot McKnight — one of the keynote speakers — challenged what he described as the modern tendency to lift up social justice efforts as “kingdom work.”

“It’s like a tsunami, beginning to overtake the church, and the church is losing significance in local communities because Christians are devoted to changing the world through the political process,” said McKnight, a prominent evangelical New Testament scholar and popular blogger.

Showing compassion, feeding the homeless and working for peace are good causes, but kingdom work involves introducing people to Jesus and his church, McKnight told 285 youth ministers from Churches of Christ in 30 states.

That message struck a chord with some of the youth ministers who gathered at the Crowne Plaza Colorado Springs — in the shadow of Pikes Peak.

“We’ve swung so far from the door-knocking days that we’ve forgotten to actually door-knock on the hearts of people and give them the message of Christ,” said Lee Langdon, youth minister for the Alameda Church of Christ in Norman, Okla. “Reestablishing that into the hearts of our teens and into their own missions is going to be important.”

However, McKnight’s attempt to distinguish social justice efforts from kingdom work did not resonate with everyone....

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Red Letter Christians/Sojourners movement for starters.

http://www.redletterchristians.org

Jim Wallis and Tony Compolo are giant promoters of Obama and his agenda - and seek to get churches to embrace everything from raw unadulterated Socialism to Gay Marriage in the church.

They are rabid Marxist/Socialists who are working to “rescue” Christianity from the ‘radical Right”. Their website has been softened in their initial statements about accusing the Right Wing of being Satanic, and now include mentioning Democrats and Republicans together in their blame for partisan divides.

This bunch are foot soldiers of the MarxoFascist Left working for “Social Justice” - and making the Obama Ideology a moral and religious issue.

Jim Wallis gave campaign speeches for Obama in 2008, where he stated that the Radical Right has “hijacked” Christianity from it’s true roots the same way Jihadists hijacked Islam from it’s true roots. The Sojourners essentially are working to sow seeds in all church congregations that proclaims that Jesus was a Socialist - using the Sermon on the Mount as evidence that to be a good Christian, requires support of Socialism.

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Thanks. Sorry to be so dense. I spend a lot of time in Christian circles but haven’t encountered anything like this. I know a few believers who voted for Oam, but this isn’t their agenda.