http://www.reformergent.org/2008/04/07/when-the-world-does-more-than-us/ Version 3.0 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:57:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.reformergent.org/2008/04/07/when-the-world-does-more-than-us/#comment-86 t clair Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:26:47 +0000 http://www.reformergent.org/?p=49#comment-86 To answer your question, I would submit that it is out of an undue fear that we will slip into the "social gospel" that became prevalent in the mid-twentieth century. We have allowed any sort of social action to become associated with the theological left of the last century. Perhaps this is endemic to another great ill that plagues the Church in the U.S.: an unwillingness to learn from those with whom we disagree. To answer your question, I would submit that it is out of an undue fear that we will slip into the “social gospel” that became prevalent in the mid-twentieth century. We have allowed any sort of social action to become associated with the theological left of the last century. Perhaps this is endemic to another great ill that plagues the Church in the U.S.: an unwillingness to learn from those with whom we disagree.

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