God has always been the champion of the homeless, the poor, widow and orphan. He is profoundly aware of man's tendency towards evil and prejudice. C.S. Lewis said, "with free will comes great goodness and evil." The Christian is called to be God's hand extended to a world that is not alway fair or just. Jesus stated in Matthew 25 that each one of us will be judged and rewarded on how we deal with the sick, naked, the prisoner, widow, orphan and under privileged. Mother Theresa was asked one time how she could minister to the leper in India. She replied, "I look at each face as Jesus in His distressing disguise." It is our responsbility to once again fulfill the mandate of social justice. A realm that has been left to government, left leaning politicians who leave God out of the equation and social reformers who have their own agenda. This was our realm at one time. Now there are still great organizations such as the Salvation army who are deeply involved in this area. I give them all the credit they deserve. Their founder, William Booth when he was looking for a word to described what he was doing came up with phrase, "Others."
I believe it is time the evangelical church return to the area of social justice, helping out the less fortunate and spend our money more wisely. We build bigger buildings, run bigger outreach programs and spend more money on promotion of our agenda at the expense of fulfilling the great commandment, "loving others." Can you imagination the difference it would make if the church as a whole got back to social justice. It would revolutionize our world.
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