What Every Christian Needs to Know about Social Justice - by Jeffrey D Johnson (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

At first glance, it appears that social justice and Christianity have a lot in common. They seem to share a few mutual concerns: they're both opposed to bigotry, racism, and oppression; they are mutually concerned for the needy, the afflicted, and the less fortunate within society; and they both seek to resolve conflict as they aspire after unity and peace. And with these shared concerns, it is tempting for Christians to buy into the validity of social justice. But as Jeffrey D. Johnson clearly and succinctly explains in just a few short chapters, social justice is incompatible with Christianity. Johnson takes us through the history of social justice and helps us understand its complex issues. This is a brief, to-the-point handbook every Christian should read to understand how contemporary definitions of social justice differ from what the Bible teaches about justice and how social justice seeks to destroy individual rights and the authority of the nuclear family and the conservative church.

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With the competence of a careful student and the heart of a faithful pastor, he has done the hard work of investigating the origins, development, and wickedness of the modern social justice movement. Well-researched, clearly written, and necessarily succinct, What Every Christian Needs to Know about Social Justice will be the first book I recommend to believers who want a trustworthy introduction to that movement.

The social justice agenda is a perverse movement that has various tentacles that impact nearly all the spheres of our modern society, including political, economic, academic, medical, athletic, and most troubling of all - the church of Jesus Christ. Due to the vast diversity and complexity of the movement, it becomes a unique challenge to explain the dangers of social justice. Jeff Johnson, in his book, What Every Christian Needs to Know about Social Justice, fulfills the calling of a Christian by contending "for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3). Make no mistake about it, the social justice agenda is a devilish agenda, and Jeff Johnson explains and exposes it in his helpful book.

Jeff Johnson has given us a clear, doctrinally sound, historically astute, and philosophically insightful account of the development of critical theory and its manifestation in the social justice movement.

With great precision, Jeff Johnson rightly defines and explains the origins and dangers of social justice in a way that neither overstates the problem nor understates the danger. For some time, I have longed for a book to be written that will help pastors and congregants to understand these complex issues and know how to respond biblically. That book has finally arrived!

Jeff Johnson has done us a great favor by sticking to the important, key issues and shining a bright light upon the destructive impact of [social justice].

With concise precision, Jeffrey Johnson exposes the treacherous foundation of social justice, revealing the risk to society as a whole and, more importantly, the terrible danger for God's people who offer any credence to it.

Every Christian is required by God to "do justice" (Mic. 6:8). With our Bibles full of exhortations to do and love justice, what are Christians to make of the social justice movement? My fear, as a pastor, is that many Christians confuse the social justice movement with the Bible's calls to do justice. They are not the same. The social justice movement is a stage-four cancer that has metastasized to the church. Jeff Johnson helps the Christian to understand the worldview of the social justice movement as well as its profound deficiencies, indeed, its injustices. Jeff's book is a clarion call to discern this movement and see it for what it is. With his typical clarity, he has given the church a brief, to-the-point handbook that every Christian should read.