Social Gospel Quotes

#1. The promise of a social gospel was for Luther an irrelevant and ultimately irrelevant and ultimately cruel delusion.

Andrew Pettegree

#2. Allow me to sum it up this way; if the Church allows this secular humanistic "social gospel" into its hallowed halls, then it is putting its very existence at risk, for it will subject itself to the government. And the Church must be subject to Christ
not the government.

Curtis A. Chamberlain

#3. I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

Desmond Tutu

#4. There is no such thing as a "social gospel." It is a misnomer. There is only one Gospel. "If any man preach any other gospel unto you ...
let him be accursed" [Galatians 1:9 KJV].

Billy Graham

#5. An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.

E. Stanley Jones

#6. The clash between the individual gospel and the social gospel leaves me cold. An individual gospel is a soul without a body, and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost and the other is a corpse. Put the two together and you have a living person.66

Jayakumar Christian

#7. If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

Vance Havner

#8. One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

Harold Holzer

#9. I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Pope John Paul II

#11. The loss of Christendom gives us a joyous opportunity to reclaim the freedom to proclaim the gospel in a way in which we cannot when the main social task of the church is to serve as one among many helpful props for the state.

Stanley Hauerwas

#12. The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.

Martin Luther

#13. If groups are not gospel-centered and gospel-fueled, they are merely a social outlet for people, and they lack the power for transformation. So

Matt Chandler

#14. The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church's social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

Matt Chandler

#15. God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

Joni Eareckson Tada

#16. The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.

Mark Buchanan

#17. True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.

Pope John Paul II

#18. Some parents live more like reclusive monks than like first-century Christians who were famous for their love for and service within their cities, cities that in many cases were more overtly wicked than cities found in modern-day America.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#19. When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#20. I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see people being converted to Christ, and it would have a far greater impact on the social, moral, and psychological needs of people than anything else it could possibly do.

Billy Graham

#21. Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

John Wesley

#22. Marxian thought, King argued, should challenge Christians to express their own "passion and concern for social justice".

Troy Jackson

#23. New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

John Charles Pollock

#24. The gospel is not about ... pie-in-the-sky when they die ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world ... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

Tony Campolo

#25. As a consequence of the spread of the gospel, history will experience widespread faith in God, righteousness on the personal and social levels, and international peace and prosperity on the cultural and political levels.

Ken Gentry

#26. Miracle focused messages propagates social vices instead of social virtues

Sunday Adelaja

#27. My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God.

Richard Llewellyn

#28. There is no separation between the gospel and culture, between how we live in society and how we live in our private lives, between the lordship of Jesus inside the four walls of a church building and outside that building.

Michael Brown

#29. In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#30. God might choose his own time, but Reagan had a taste for coming to the rescue.

Rick Perlstein

#31. Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.

Watchman Nee

#32. The future of Christian social witness cannot assume the gospel, but must articulate it explicitly and coherently.

Russell D. Moore

#33. Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.

David Platt

#34. Absolute excellence is rarely to be found in any legislation.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#35. The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God, in such a way that divine redemption can be recognized as the best solution of our problems, individual and social

Carl F. H. Henry

#36. A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God
that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which
it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?

Oscar A. Romero