Our Faith and Social Reform
To what lengths should we go to confront and eradicate evils apparent in our society today? As believers living in Jacksonville, Florida in 2017, how does Jesus want us to engage a world so enamored with sin? Are we fulfilling Jesus’ calling to be “the salt of the earth” and “the light of the world” (Matt 5:13-14)? Carl F.H. Henry helped found several major evangelical organizations, including Fuller Theological Seminary, Evangelical Theological Society, and Christianity Today. See: http://www.henryinstitute.org/henrys-story/ In 1947 Carl F.H. Henry gave a lecture that was eventually published as a book titled, “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism.” This work articulated a core value for Fuller Theological Seminary, which began that year and with whom Henry served as a professor. Henry’s thesis in the book is that the Evangelical (Fundamentalist) church is not doing enough to confront and eradicate the social evils present in the world. When he wrote the book, the