Social Work

I don't know what camp you are in when it comes to the millennial debate. If you are pessimistic or optimistic about future events however, I think we can all agree that Christian social action is needed and, probably more of it. If we start talking about Christian social action it may lead to an argument over what form our social action should take?

I grew up in fundamentalism and was later schooled in the reformed tradition, so I have had the opportunity to be on both sides of the fence. There are many division nonetheless, here is a challenging quote:

"The movement in the 1970s ad 1980s toward greater Christian involvement in social issues was spearheaded, not by Reformed amils and postmils, but by Arminian premils like Jerry Falwell and Pat Roberson. This is an embarrassment for us reformed people, who like to think that we have a corner on Christian political thought and action, and tend to look down our noses at "fundamentalists" for their lack of a "full-orbed Christian world-and- life view." Of course, fundamentalists like Falwell and Robertson may have been influenced , at a third or fourth hand, by Reformed people like Rousas J. Rushdoony, Gary North, and Francis Schaeffer. But it was the evangelical premils who took the lead in the actual movements for social change, and we should give them credit. Here we see another reason why the church should reexamine its divisions. Full implementation of Christianity in out time requires the gifts given to people in all Christian traditions."

---John M. Frame, The Doctrine of the Christian Life (P&R 2008), 280