Recently, I kept seeing a particular ad pop up on my Facebook feed. Day after day it made me curious. Finally, after about the third day of seeing it, I decided to click on it. I watch for 10 minutes. I clicked on their links, and I even went to their website.

And I was so frustrated!

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For the life of me, I could not figure out what these people were about. They were speaking in innuendos and generalizations to such a degree that I couldn’t tell if they were pro-capitalism or actually pro-socialism. But one clue struck out. The phrase “social justice.“

Do you find it both confusing and frustrating when the phrase “social justice” is thrown around in Christian circles?

Given my young adult background with liberal ideologies, I am particularly alert to that nebulous phrase. For many, it is simply a codeword for other politically-correct progressive ideologies. But for some Christians, when they say social justice, they mean something different.

So my point today is really four-fold:

1. Watch out when you’re reading articles and links online.Sometimes the true ideology and principles of those penning the writing is not what you think it is.
2. The phrase “social justice“ has for the most part been hijacked!Even though Doug and I and our whole family are deeply committed to the problems of poverty and community decline as we minister at our church, I do not agree with most of my Christian brothers and sisters’ methodology of social justice. How sad.
3. Our God is a God of justice! We cannot throw in the towel on the whole phrase simply because the progressives have tried to hijack a spiritual concept.

Check out these verses about the topic:

He has shown you, o mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

-Micah 6:8

“For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them.”

-Isaiah 61:8

4. Sometimes the phrase “social justice” is even used as a weapon. 

This requires correct biblical study and spiritual alertness. I’m praying that my heart would not grow hardened to true works of justice even as I am dismayed by the false justice moves in our nation.

(Excerpt from Frontline Family Ministries. Article by Lisa Cherry.)