The suggested prompt about promoting social justice through serving God is an adequate statement that confirms the dogma of the Christian church. One of the confirmations is Keller and Alsdorf’s (2014) statement about fairness in higher education, when, due to the prevailing trend towards segregation by social status, getting a good education is not available for some. The authors dispute this situation and note the need to revise the existing social norms since the attitude towards other people through the prism of material wealth contradicts Christian values about the soul and knowledge (Keller & Alsdorf, 2014). As Miller and Polson (2019) state, “social justice may be shaped by several factors: race/ethnicity and the experience of racism, Biblical texts or stories including the life of Jesus,” and some other criteria (p. 239). This means that there are no clearly defined boundaries within which a person can keep God’s commandments, and service may imply not specific steps in a certain direction but the perception of equality and brotherhood as important and dominant social values.
Any occupation, viewed from a Christian perspective, can be characterized as a practice to promote social justice. For instance, Keller and Alsdorf (2014) give an example of art and note that “Christian artists have access to a broader and more balanced vision of the world,” which, in turn, helps better see problems and gaps in relationships among people (p. 160). A person who seeks to turn injustice into justice in honest ways is doing a good deed by protecting not only the vulnerable but also oneself from the unrighteous environment. Therefore, serving God in action correlates with the promotion of social justice and reflects the importance of Christian teachings about kindness towards others.
References
Keller, T., & Alsdorf, K. L. (2014). Every good endeavor: Connecting your work to God’s work. Penguin.
Miller, K., & Polson, E. C. (2019). Exploring the social justice beliefs of Baptist Christians.Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 38(3), 239-258.