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Christian hope frees us to act hopefully in the world. It enables us to act humbly and patiently, tackling visible injustices in the world around us without needing to be assured that our skill and our effort will somehow rid the world of injustice altogether. Christian hope, after all, does not need to see what it hopes for (Heb. 11:1); and neither does it require us to comprehend the end of history. Rather, it simply requires us to trust that even the most outwardly insignificant of faithful actions - the cup of cold water given to the child, the widow's mite offered at the temple, the act of hospitality shown to the stranger, none of which has any overall strategic socio-political significance so far as we can now see - will nevertheless be made to contribute in some significant way to the construction of God's kingdom by the action of God's creative and sovereign grace.

~ Craig M. Gay

Craig M. Gay Hope Social Gospel Social Justice

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

~ John Charles Pollock

John Charles Pollock Compassion Regeneration Social Gospel

There is no separation between the gospel and culture, between how we live in society and how we live in our private lives, between the lordship of Jesus inside the four walls of a church building and outside that building.

~ Michael Brown

Michael Brown Culture Evangelism Social Gospel

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

~ Walter Rauschenbusch

Walter Rauschenbusch Social Gospel Theology

When religion becomes so involved in a future good over yonder that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Discipleship Ministry Social Gospel

The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.

~ Mark Buchanan

Mark Buchanan Christian Living Social Gospel

Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Judas Liberalism Money Social Gospel Socialism

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

~ Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer Arrogance Idolatry Liberalism Social Gospel

There is no such thing as a “social gospel.” It is a misnomer. There is only one Gospel. “If any man preach any other gospel unto you . . .let him be accursed” [Galatians 1:9 KJV].

~ Billy Graham

Billy Graham Gospel Preach Social Gospel

There is no doubt that the biblical concept of the Kingdom calls for a ministry to the suffering, the imprisoned, the oppressed, the hungry and whomever is dehumanized by an unjust society. In abstract, almost all of us can affirm this with enthusiasm. When it is the vocation, however, of one of our number to make this Gospel imperative, a matter demanding and requiring us to change our comfortable ways, then many of us fall away. The prophet has never been popular among his other contemporaries. He has been stoned, beheaded, crucified and shot. If not killed, we have been all too ready to vilify him or her in the name of God, little realizing that it may well be God who sent the prophet to challenge our complacency.

~ Urban T. Holmes Iii

Urban T. Holmes Iii Anglicanism Christianity Gospel Kingdom Of God Prophetic Witness Social Gospel Social Justice

Poverty is not just a sad accident. Yes, it’s partly about lack of jobs, “but it’s also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.” Matthew Desmond

~ Jennifer Schuessler

Jennifer Schuessler Injustice Prophecy Social Gospel

I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson Activism Ministry Social Gospel
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