Good friend Bob Jarrett sent me this email he received from the Sojourners.
This time, he’s crossed the line.
Last week, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck urged Christians to leave churches that use the words “social justice.”
Then today, on his morning show, Beck said social justice was a “perversion of the gospel” and complained that social justice and economic justice were code words for Communism and Nazism.
Really?
Considering that the Catholic Church, the black churches, the mainline Protestant churches, and more and more evangelical and Pentecostal churches all consider social justice central to biblical faith, what’s he really advocating? A complete disregard of the gospel and millennia of Church teaching?
Of course, Christians may disagree about what social justice means in our current political context. And that’s an important debate. But the Bible is clear: From Moses to the Hebrew prophets to Jesus, social justice has been an integral part of God’s plan for humanity.
Beck said that, if his church were about “social justice,” he would report his church to the church authorities. What authorities? Church bodies as diverse in their theology as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals have explicitly endorsed social justice as a biblical imperative.
So here’s our idea: How about reporting ourselves to Glenn Beck as church members and pastors who practice and preach social justice?
Because Sojourners’ mission is “to articulate the biblical call to social justice,” our founder and CEO Jim Wallis was the first to “turn himself in.” Since yesterday, we’ve had more than a thousand other Christians join him.
What about you? We invite you to “turn yourself in” to Glenn Beck as a Christian who believes in social justice. And while you’re at it, invite some friends. Let’s send him thousands of names.
Add your name to the list here.
Wonder why Beck is so concerned about what Christian churches practice? Last I heard, Beck's a Mormon, which is not a Christian denomination.
"The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?' " -- Glenn Beck
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