Social action is an essential aspect of the church’s work in the world—peace and justice and caring for the poor, widows, orphans, the disenfranchised, and the marginalized arise from true faith. But these actions are to result from the embodiment of God’s full narrative, not from a Christianity accommodating itself to Western culture’s doctrine of progress and utopia.
-Robert E. Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 85.