Repent for Health Care is at Hand: Did Obama Just Legislate the Gospel?

A recent interview with Sojourner's founder, Jim Wallis, has the Emergent leader suggest that social justice and health care "are at the heart of the gospel."  Haven't you read the New Testament?  Jesus said, repent and give to government your taxes for heath care for the Kingdom of God is at hand.

Jim Wallis, I believe, is only digging himself into a deeper hole.  The more he goes after radio and TV host Glenn Beck the more he reveals himself as a big government Statist who is in the tradition of socialists and social gospel pioneers Walter Raushenbush.



We must not forget that Glenn Beck and the opponents of Jim Wallis' politics aren't against helping the poor or reforming policies like health care, but there is a concern over the role of government.  Nowhere in the New Testament does the church turn to the government for "social justice."  Rather, when they rightly understood the cross and the gospel, where they saw a need they sought to meet it out of their own pocket in which they voluntarily surrendered.  They did not expect government to do the job for them.

Jim Wallis and crew miss this important important point.


For more:
Commentary - Have We Forgotten the Gospel?  Glenn Beck, Social Justice, and the Gospel
Commentary - Who Isn't One?:  Brian McLaren and Social Christians
Shortblog - Glenn Beck and Social Justice
Shortblog - The Power of the Gospel in Bringing Social Change:  Perhaps We Need to Reconsider Our Efforts
Theology - Is Wallis a Marxist?  A New Video Surfaces
Review -"A Theology For The Social Gospel" - Sin by Walter Rauschenbusch
Review -"A Theology For The Social Gospel" - The Atonement by Walter Rauschenbusch
Review -"A Theology For the Social Gospel" - Part 1 by Walter Rauschenbusch
Review -"The Great Awakening" Part 1 by Jim Wallis
Review -"The Great Awakening" Part 2 by Jim Wallis
Review -"When Helping Hurts"
Review -"The Justice Project" by Brian McLaren
Review -"Everything Must Change" by Brian McLaren