Leading Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore has responded to John MacArthur’s recent claims that evangelicals’ embrace of social justice causes is a threat to the Gospel.
Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, recently spoke with co-host Skye Jethani on the Holy Post Podcast to discuss social justice within the Church.
Moore, who leads an entity responsible for a conference in honor of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death this year, responded to a statement signed last week by over 3,000 evangelicals that supports MacArthur’s condemnation of evangelical’s “newfound obsession with the notion of ‘social justice.'”
The statement released last week argues that the Bible’s teaching is being challenged by “the broad and somewhat nebulous rubric of concern for ‘social justice'” and voiced concern that “values borrowed from secular culture are currently undermining Scripture in the areas of race and ethnicity, manhood and womanhood, and human sexuality.”
Specifically, Moore was asked if rhetoric from “The Statement on Social Justice and the…
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