John MacArthur Forewarned of Evangelicals’ ‘Obsession’ with Social Justice

Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California has long been warning Christians not to allow the line between social justice and the church to blur.

According to Faithwire, the eighty-year-old pastor cautioned that the “social justice” movement can be divisive.

In 2018, MacArthur wrote an introductory post to a blog series entitled “Social Injustice and the Gospel,” noting how evangelicals endorsing the social justice movement “seem to have a very different perspective” of the Gospel.

“Their rhetoric certainly points a different direction, demanding repentance and reparations from one ethnic group for the sins of its ancestors against another.” MacArthur wrote. “It’s the language of law, not gospel—and worse, it mirrors the jargon of worldly politics, not the message of Christ.

He added, “It is a startling irony that believers from different ethnic groups, now one in Christ, have chosen to divide over ethnicity. They have a true spiritual unity in Christ, which they seem to disdain in favor of fleshly factions.”

MacArthur also noted the “significant shift” taking place with evangelicalism’s “newfound obsessions” with social justice.

“I’m convinced it’s a shift that is moving many people (including some key evangelical leaders) off message, and onto a trajectory that many other movements and denominations have taken…