A friend of mine keeps a blog called Occasional Cigarettes. This guy is working on a masters degree in linguistics and apparently his blog title is something that a linguist would find amusing… but it goes right over my head. Anyway, the other day he quoted Christopher Wright from his latest book, The Mission of God. It’s good enough to re-quote here… or you can read it on the linguist’s blog.

Mission that claims the high spiritual ground of preaching only a gospel of personal forgiveness and salvation without the radical challenge of the full biblical demands of God’s justice and compassion, without a hunger and thirst for justice, may well expose those who respond to its partial truths to the same dangerous verdict… If faith without works is dead, mission without social compassion and justice is biblically deficient.