Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:26-27

When you enter into their alliances you are at the mercy of their interpretations, terms and theories. And they are not Bible based. Like Diffusion of Innovation Theory or “discovering the psychographics” of the congregation. Now we must lay down the Bible and consult the sociology and psychology departments of the secular university that mostly opposes God. The Cross Of Jesus The Christ Of God is lost.

I agree that the term is used in a manner that is careless at times and reckless at others. But, as someone both convinced of a reformed manner of looking at scripture and one who is “in the trenches” so to speak working in a ministry that seeks to work for justice among the poor, it is important to not jettison the term as if we’ve felt marginalized by someone else’s use of it.

I also agree with the implication of quoting Sowell that (as Kuyper contended) Christians know far to little about economics. However, I would be careful about solely using an economist to define our terms.

I take the word on its face: “social” points to society, that is, groups of folks at various levels. . . so, adding the concept of justice, we are generally speaking of institutional or societal issues that intersect or deviate from the topic of justice in some way. That is a good place to start thinking about what social justice/injustice might be.