:: Social Injustice Demands a Response ::
If you’re following me on this blog, then you probably know me to some degree. And if you know me to some degree, then you know that I’m crazily passionate about putting an end to human trafficking.
Yesterday I posted a blog from Seth Barnes that spoke to the fact that social justice isn’t enough. We need to spread the other half of the gospel in the process. I think that it’s really easy for myself and a lot of other individuals in my generation to lean on one side of the fence; we typically prefer the “cool” factor of standing behind social justice trends. But the second that you put the glory of God behind it, we get uncomfortable, we squirm, and we’re afraid that people will get offended.
Have we forgotten that the glory of God is what should be magnified in the first place? NOT our own human-ability to respond to needs?
I could probably rant all day about it but I won’t this time. I just wanted to say that there is a glorious opportunity here to respond to a need… (Read the rest here)