It is hard for me to take blogging breaks. I can't shut myself up! There are about a million wordy posts floating around in my brain.
***Interruption*** from hiatus ***again*** to ask you something I can't get off my mind. Maybe you have the answers.
Is setting the captive free, loosening the chains of injustice, releasing the oppressed, breaking yokes, about social justice, or spiritual liberation, or both? Are they inherently, inextricably linked together?
Where should our focus lie? Or are they an intertwined chord?
(Yes, I'm still thinking about Glen Beck's claim.)
Ideas?
2 comments:
Absolutely and totally BOTH. In Isaiah 58 where these verses are mentioned, God's people were "sacrificing" and bowing down to God but at the same time were entrenched in sinful behavior; extortion, cheating, slavery, gluttony, the list goes on and on. And they were wondering why God wasn't paying attention to the words from their lips... but God knew their hearts and they were so full of themselves that they didn't mind oppressing others whether by actively participating or ignoring, so that they could continue in the lifestyle they wanted. And in these passages I think it is very much about social justice, but at the same time it is for THEIR spiritual benefit... as individuals and mostly as a community of God's people, called by His name, to act how God's people should act.
I think Glenn misses the point entirely regarding the difference between BIBLICAL social justice, adn worldly justice. I still think he's an annoying gnat.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/what-glenn-beck-doesnt-un_b_511362.
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