Comments on: Dallas Willard – Can Social Justice Be Just Another Works-Righteousness Gospel?

By: Sectional Garage &mi

Sectional Garage &mi — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:46:42 +0000

i think that once in a while, we should do some social works too because we should help other people '

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By: matbathome

matbathome — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:51:00 +0000

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By: Jason Hesiak

Jason Hesiak — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:01:00 +0000

We’re rebels without a cause! Ha ha…

By: Jason Hesiak

Jason Hesiak — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:01:00 +0000

We’re rebels without a cause! Ha ha…

By: David Porter

David Porter — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:52:00 +0000

Great stuff… Our call is to be a community of people who live as a sign of the kingdom. While justice is part of this there is so much more. What we focus on is living the way we will live when the kingdom is fully realized (as much as possible). If we keep this focus, it keeps us humble because we are relying on the Spirit to guide us as a community as to how we should live together and for others (which is to say to live for God’s Glory). Justice is not a cause to take up but rather it is one aspect of the “sign” which we are to be for the kingdom of God.

By: David Porter

David Porter — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:52:00 +0000

By: len

len — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:56:00 +0000

In practical terms, this means spending time in devotion and worship… both personal and communal… where I discover myself known and loved by God, and in turn I know and love Him. As the monastics phrased it, God is not known if not loved.. so we have to learn that inward gaze (looking not at the things which are seen, but which are not seen)… or we never really move from the house of fear to the house of faith (Nouwen).

By: len

len — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:56:00 +0000

By: Mark Van Steenwyk

Mark Van Steenwyk — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:59:00 +0000

Great post (yet again) David. I’ve found Hauerwas helpful in my framing of the issue…it seems like anytime we make Jesus a tool for something it ceases to be about the Kingdom. I’m trying to rework my own theological categories in such a way that the concepts of “social Gospel” or “personal Gospel” are meaningless. Indeed it starts with the idea Kingdom is centered on Jesus Christ and is something that the church inhabits and points towards (instead of advances). If we are the embodiment of Christ in the world, point to a deeper reality (the Kingdom) and embodying shared practices that help reveal the Kingdom, then it is hard to think in terms of “social gospel” devoid from personal transformation (and vice versa).

Practically, this is hard to work out. Some of it is simply intuitive…determining if I’m doing something AS Christ, FOR Christ. At Missio Dei, we try to make everything relational. We practice hospitality and take time to know our guests. We also resist abstract political activity and try to do things as directly as possible.