Social Justice Warriors

This week on the Straight Truth Podcast, Dr. Richard Caldwell and Dr. Josh Philpot sit down to talk about the social justice movement. This movement happening in the culture has made inroads to churches in our nation and around the world. Dr. Philpot shares that according to some Old Testament Scripture passages, it certainly seems that the Church should be an advocate for social justice. He reads Isaiah 1:17 and Micah 6:8, saying that in these passages, God is commanding justice. These seem to imply that every believer ought to advocate for the kind of justice God commands. But is this the case? Is that what God calls us to do? Is the Church to be an advocate for social justice? The word social does not appear before God's commands, biblically speaking. So how should we understand this? What is our place as individuals, and what is the Church's place or role regarding justice and righteousness in the culture?