Making People Uncomfortable

The last few years I have been reading, writing and speaking about social issues like HIV/AIDS, poverty, the environment, justice, and sometimes people get uncomfortable with me.  So this quote from John Perkins just has to be shared: “My concern for the poor and for social justice made many evangelicals suspect I was theologically liberal. I never did understand those folks.  I never questioned that the Bible was totally true.  In fact, I really believed such passages as Matthew 25:31-46 and I John 3:17-18.”  (Taken from When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, 2009, Moody Press, pg. 11).