After fielding flak for branding the social justice movement a threat to the Gospel, Pastor John MacArthur further contended that embracing the movement reflects a church “completely ensnared in efforts to please the culture.”
“‘Social justice’ (in the world’s usage of that term) entails political ideas that are deemed sophisticated — namely, identity politics, critical race theory, the redistribution of wealth, and other radical or socialist policies. Those ideas were first popularized and propagated in the secular academy, where they are now regarded as received wisdom and have become a dominating part of popular culture. Evangelicals who are chasing the culture are latecomers to the party of those who advocate ‘social justice,'” MacArthur wrote in a new post on his Grace to You Ministry website Wednesday.
MacArthur, who is leader of Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California, and president of The Master’s College and Seminary, began tackling the notion of “social justice” in a two-week series earlier this month.
In his post on Wednesday,…
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