Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel – History | Rapp Report Daily 0136 | Striving for Eternity

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The Need for a Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel

For the next couple of weeks, we're going to look at the statement of social justice and the gospel. And you can see and sign the statement at statementonsocialjustice .com. This is an important statement for our time.

We want to take the time to go through that. And what I want to do today is to start by going through some of the history that you can see documented there. Back on June 19th, actually even before that, I should say, there were many of us that were starting to get concerned and tried to see about getting folks together to discuss this.

The June 19, 2018 Meeting and the Initial Draft

On June 19th, 2018, 14 men had gathered together to discuss the issues. And what came out of that was the decision to write a statement that others can affirm and deny the things that we would believe in as evangelicals.

And the goal was to make this to be something that would be a very succinct statement. And Josh Bice, Pastor Josh Bice, had taken the steps to make the initial edits. Basically, Tom Askell had written the initial copy, and Josh did some of the edits.

Review, Feedback, and Early Signers

And afterwards, Justin Peters had submitted some other articles. There were several men and women who had reviewed it, commented, and looked at this. This is not something that just one person was doing on their own.

There were several initial signers. There were about 75 before it even went public. So many of us had looked at this. It is something that is essential for our day and age as Christians to look at.

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