I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the gospel, period. The gospel is concerned with the whole person.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, 'Now is that political or social?' He said, 'I feed you.' Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

Desmond Tutu
social justice Faith gospel

"[The church's task is] not simply to bind the wounds of the victims beneath the wheel, but also to put a spoke in the wheel itself."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Justice social justice society Systems action activism suffering church