When I started working on the Seek Social Justice series, I realized I needed to know more about what the Bible says concerning social justice and the poor. My friend Dr. George Grant has taught on this topic for years and written numerous books on the subject, so I knew he was a good place to begin. Starting with Genesis, Dr. Grant shows that the Bible teaches a “word and deed evangelism” that ultimately leads to opportunity and work as the long-term solution to poverty. Furthermore, the Bible emphasizes an important distinction concerning the poor: those who are “denied the opportunity to work” and those who “refuse the opportunity to work.” [click to continue…]
Chuck Colson has exceptional insight into the way work is necessary to individuals in a healthy society. In this excerpt from Seek Social Justice, he talks about how God made us in His image in order to be creative and purposeful. He recounts an experiment with work that the Nazi’s did which sheds light on what happens in a welfare society that follows a utopian worldview. [click to continue…]
Work is an important and sometimes overlooked aspect of social justice. As Genesis 2 tells us, God ordained work as part of the essential makeup of men and women. Work is a good thing; without it, both men and women (and especially men) cannot do what God created them to do. Whether by choice or lack of opportunity, not working is a deficit that wreaks destruction psychologically, spiritually, and economically: our inner cities and the criminal element that emerges has direct connections to issues of work. The fourth lesson in the Seek Social Justice series therefore focuses on work, and particularly at the way Men of Valor prison ministry changes incarcerated men “from takers to givers in society.” [click to continue…]
When I started working on the Seek Social Justice series, I realized I needed to know more about what the Bible says concerning social justice and the poor. My friend Dr. George Grant has taught on this topic for years and written numerous books on the subject, so I knew he was a good place to begin. Starting with Genesis, Dr. Grant shows that the Bible teaches a “word and deed evangelism” that ultimately leads to opportunity and work as the long-term solution to poverty. Furthermore, the Bible emphasizes an important distinction concerning the poor: those who are “denied the opportunity to work” and those who “refuse the opportunity to work.” [click to continue…]
