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Episode 210 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer questions on if Jesus is God, what the Bible says about justice, and the office of deacon.
Jesus says, “You have the poor with you always” (Mark 14:7). What does Jesus mean? How are we to understand poverty? What are believers’ obligations toward the poor?
Many Christians conflate the social gospel with social justice concerns. They suggest that Christian indifference to social issues has to do with the spirituality of the gospel message and of the church, even if this spirituality is selectively applied. And yet, the Bible demands we care about the gospel and social justice.
Where Scripture speaks, the church speaks. Where it presses God's claims of justice on behalf of our neighbors, we must hear and obey. Yet the church has neither the authority nor the competence to bind its members' consciences in matters beyond Scripture's scope.
Just because your doctrine is right, good, and true does not mean it is healthy.
Social justice is not a conversation that anyone can opt out of: every day we are engaged in secular rituals that either support or threaten the good of our neighbor.
When the Judaizers infiltrated the churches of Galatia, they brought these attitudes with them. Looking to their Jewish ethnicity, cultural, and ceremonial trappings to guarantee their acceptance with God, they treated Gentile Christians as culturally inferior and pressured them to assimilate in order to really belong among God’s people. At this point, I need to address a common misconception about Galatians 3:28.