Sojourners Founder Jim Wallis’ Revolutionary Anti-Christian “Gospel”

LTRP Note:
On July 7-11, emergent-liberal leader, Jim Wallis, will be one
of the speakers at

Lifest 2010 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. After you read this
article, you will understand why Lighthouse Trails and others
are so concerned that evangelical ministries, such as evangelist
Luis Palau, (who will share a platform at Lifest with Wallis
this July), Cedarville University (who
recently had Wallis speak to their students), and Joel
Rosenberg (who recently

shared a platform with New Age sympathizer Leonard Sweet) are
co-mingling in public venues with those who promote opposition
to the biblical Christian faith – a co-mingling that is helping
to bring about the spiritual decline and apostasy in the
Christian church today.

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Jim Wallis, founder of
Sojourners
magazine, is one of the top “change agents” today, and the
timing of his surge in popularity should not be ignored,
considering 1) the ideology of our current administration, 
2) the advance of liberal theology via the emerging
church and church growth movements, and 3) the current state
of apostasy the church finds itself in today. Are all these
connected? Through this man, they are indeed.

Unbiblical trends in the
church tend to snowball, producing even worse trends: each
heretical book or teaching that comes along seems to lead to a
worse one; the Bible says in 2 Timothy 3:13 that in the last
days, “evil men and seducers [imposters] shall wax worse and
worse deceiving and being deceived,” suggesting a
progressive pattern of deception.

For those who remember the
old “Dragnet” TV show, allow me to “reinvent” Joe Friday: “The
story you are about to hear is true. None of the names have been
changed – and the only thing I’m interested in protecting is the
Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Worth noting, Jim Wallis
will be one of the keynote speakers at Lifest this July. (Lifest
is a large “Christian” music fest in Oshkosh, Wisconsin every
summer. 70,000 attendees are expected over the course of the 
weekend.)

For nearly forty
years, Jim Wallis has expressed himself through an organization
called “Sojourners.” He was raised in an evangelical family in
Detroit, and attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, but
his radical political views made it impossible for him to finish
there.

[i]

At that time, he also
founded an anti-capitalist magazine called, The
Post-American, in which he called for the
redistribution of wealth and an economy managed by the
government. He also experimented for a season with communal
living in search of a utopian lifestyle.

In 1972, he moved his work
to Washington DC and renamed it Sojourners. He wasn’t just
against the Vietnam war, he rejoiced in America’s defeat
there showing his leftist sympathies by publicly criticizing the
Vietnamese and Hmong refugees who fled that communist regime (we
called them “boat people” back then), by claiming they were
leaving to support their consumer habit in other lands … that
being greedy capitalists made it just too hard to live under a
dictatorship.[ii] In
remembering the terrible suffering that the boat people endured,
what uncompassionate sentiments by Wallis.                     

Wallis also supported
the Sandinista Communists in their attempt to take over
Nicaragua in the 80s, actively participating in resistance
against the American military – AND working side by side in this
cause with none other than Jeremiah Wright, the radical
anti-American Chicago preacher who was our president’s pastor
for twenty years.

In addition, Wallis
supported the FMLN, a communist terror group from El
Salvador itching to spread their Marxist revolution throughout
South America.[iii]
Men have been called “traitors” for much less than what Wallis
has stood for.

In 1983, the
organization, Accuracy in Media published a lengthy book on
the far left policies of Wallis and his organization,
documenting 53 political positions of Sojourners on such issues
as Israel’s right to exist, terrorism, socialism, capitalism,
human rights, etc. In all 53 position statements, it was found
that Sojourners’ views were completely in line with the views
of hard-line Soviets.

Joan Harris, who did
the reporting on this, observed, “Sojourners never criticizes a
Marxist state. The US and the West are the only violators of
human rights to them because they are capitalist. Marxists,
by Sojourners’ own definition, cannot violate human rights.”
Wallis calls himself a “Progressive” – but keep in mind that
“progressive” is as far left as you can go politically without
actually taking a right turn in the process.[iv]

Wallis believes that
Castro’s Cuba, Chavez’s Venezuela, and Ortega’s Nicaragua are
the Marxist paradises the US should emulate. It is not extreme
at all to say, that one of his goals is to see the end of the US
as we have known it — “Post-Americanism” finally realized. So,
after being arrested by the US government 22 times in forty
years, where has he soft-landed? As spiritual advisor to
President Obama.[v]
Now, with the help of our own government, he hopes to turn mere
ideology into policy. He is a living, breathing advocate for
total government control, complete socialism, or “totalitarian
socialism.”

Wallis has known Obama for
over twenty years, and during the “Reverend Wright” damage
control days, he was right there advising Obama on how to
spin it, helping him draft many “faith based
initiatives,” to make the far left appear to have some form
of religion, to sell the church the idea that here is a
spiritual alternative to the now defunct Religious Right, which
Wallis eulogizes endlessly in his book.

In light of all this, one
must ask the question, why is this man speaking at a Christian
festival aimed primarily at our youth, and with a highly popular
figure from the evangelical camp, namely Luis Palau?

In their own words,
Sojourners’ mission statement is this:

“[F]ounded in 1971,
our mission is to articulate the biblical call to
social justice, inspiring hope and building a
movement to transform individuals, communities, the church
and the world.”

What is this
social
justice that is supposed to transform our churches and our youth
in particularly? The dictionary defines social justice as, “The
equitable distribution of advantages, assets, and benefits among
all members of a society.” Important to note, this is also the
definition for “social-ism”: a government-controlled
economy and the redistribution of wealth.

Many are under the
impression that social justice is simply caring
for the disadvantaged. And who among us who claims to know the
Lord would ever be against reaching out to the poor and
alleviating suffering? A healthy church will naturally care for
“the least of these.” But “progressives” as Wallis take any
collective sense of moral responsibility we may have for the
disadvantaged and redefines and manipulates it to an entirely
different agenda.

Keep this in mind when you
watch the extreme changes going on in our country today –
Wallis’ social justice turns all the political hot button issues
of the day into moral issues with a divine, biblical
mandate. Everything from the economy, jobs and education, to
health care, global warming, race issues and immigration – now
carries with it the moral imperative of fairness, equity, and
validity.

For those who question
this new global village moral imperative, their Christianity is
called into question. This “new morality” is radically changing
our country and has been for some time via organizations like
ACORN.

You may be asking, what
does this have to do with the church? That’s an easy question to
answer: social justice presents a social gospel, but is
this social gospel THE Gospel of Jesus Christ and of the Bible?

The
roots of the
social gospel go back to the 19th and 20th centuries. That
was when many Protestant denominations took on liberal theology,
which includes the post-millennial view that Jesus cannot return
until mankind has brought justice to the earth by ridding itself
of all social evils. At that time, slavery, temperance, women’s
rights, child labor, and equity for the working who were caught
in the industrial revolution’s 12-hour work days were the new
causes of the liberal churches.

Wallis believes he was
born in the wrong century and says so in his book, The Great
Awakening. He says he is longing for those early days of
social justice awareness, or ‘Great Awakenings’ as they were
called – and puts them on par with true Holy Spirit-led
revivals;  hence the name of his book, The Great Awakening
– an “awakening” he is calling for today.

T.A. McMahon, in his
article, “The Shameful Social Gospel,” warns of a gospel that is
being tinkered with by some who call themselves evangelicals but
in reality are ashamed of the true gospel, presenting one
to the world that is more palatable, political, and
ecumenical.

Heretic Emergent
leader
Brian McLaren says this:

“I think our
future will require us to join humbly and charitably with
people of other faiths – Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish,
and secularists in pursuit of peace, environmental
stewardship and justice for all people, things that matter
greatly to the heart of God.” 

McMahon says this:
“No, what matters to the heart of God is that all should come to
repentance and believe the true Gospel.”[vi]

Rick Warren took the
social gospel to new levels, by hobnobbing with world leaders
and presenting his global PEACE plan to mobilize churches to
address poverty and disease at the same time he was telling
Christians not to bother thinking about biblical prophecy or
Christ’s return.

Wallis has also found a
kindred spirit in

Willow Creek. Pastor Bill Hybels’ wife Lynne is a regular
contributor to Sojourners magazine, clearly resonating
with the magazine’s goal. No surprise – Willow Creek offers
classes on social justice, (at least one of those classes

used Wallis’ book, The Great Awakening) . With
over 13,000 Willow Creek Association member churches throughout
the world, look at the potential influence Jim Wallis could have
on the church if even half of them choose to emulate Willow
Creek in their growing emphasis on the social gospel?

There is a movie coming
out soon titled, With God on Our Side. Radio host Jan
Markell

explains that “it is aimed at changing the end-time views of
evangelicals and the theology that says the Jews are God’s
chosen people and have a divine right to the land.”

The producer of this film
announces that there is “a biblical alternative for Christians
who want to love and support Israel – a “new” theology that
doesn’t favor one people group over another but instead promotes
peace and reconciliation for both Jew and Palestinian” instead
of endless Middle East violence.

The only problem with that
pie-in-the-sky thinking is that the Palestinian leadership does
not WANT peace with Israel. They want a one-state solution; they
want the destruction of Israel. The film’s message to
evangelicals is that the US’ old pro-Israel foreign policy was
based on end-time theology and has created great suffering among
the Palestinians. But today’s more socially aware and
compassionate Christians will reject that old policy and
realize that the Palestinians are the victim group most in need
of Christian compassion. Wallis, McLaren, and Tony Campolo
are promoting the film. This film is merely another
propaganda vehicle for the “progressive” social gospel
indoctrination and an unbiblical spin on the clear teachings
about Israel presented throughout the Scriptures.

Marxism is nothing new to
this old world. What Wallis is promoting is nothing new either.
But let’s take the wood, hay, and stubble of Wallis’ dry old
social justice gospel and throw some last days fuel on it: like
the Emergent church’s mix of Catholicism and liberal
Protestantism; add
Rick Warren’s
global PEACE plan, and Willow Creek’s annual Leadership
Summits featuring speakers like Bono, Bill Clinton, Jimmy
Carter, Tony Blair and Rick Warren, and before long things are
burning out of control. Throw in the fact that the forward to
Wallis’ book is written by Jimmy Carter, an anti-Israel
leftist who is presently part of a group called The Elders (a
group of 12 men and women from around the world – including
Mandela and Desmond Tutu); other endorsers are Bill Hybels,
Bono, and Brian McLaren (who is on the

Sojourners’ board of directors and a regular contributor on
its blog).  A picture of a last days apostate false church comes
into focus….

In closing, social
reformers deceptively blur the lines between
two
kingdoms, seeking to turn houses of worship into
distribution centers for their causes. What they ignore is that
all the ills of society are symptoms – the root cause is sin.
They reject the cure for sin through the cross of Christ and
instead treat symptoms – but in removing the Cross, they are
conveniently free to affirm anyone’s beliefs, and the
result is a broad-road, all-inclusive global social justice
revolution….

Consider also, that
Sojourners’ receives a portion of its considerable funding from
the Open Society Institute, this is billionaire leftist
George Soros’ organization….

May the Lord direct and
guide us, as believers, in all matters of faith, earnestly
seeking His mind and heart in all things as laid out in His
Word.

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Go

lighthousetrailsresearch.com to read the entire article.
Please don’t ignore this insightful and much-needed warning to
God’s people today.

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Notes:


[i]

http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Jim_Wallis

[ii] http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/jim_wallis.pdf

[iii] Ibid.

[iv] Ibid.

[v]Frontpage
Magazine, March 17, 2009.

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34385

[vi] ”The Shameful
Social Gospel,” TA McMahon.

http://www.thebereancall.org/node/7062

[vii] Jim Wallis,  The
Great Awakening, p. 60.

[viii] Jim Wallis,
“Politics Pushes Uneven Policies”, September 17, 2007

[ix] As heard on
Moody Christian Radio Network, in Chicago, Feb.19, 2008, when
asked about government sanctions on civil unions for gays.

www. americansfortruth.com

[x] 
The Great Awakening, p. 56

[xi] Read that,
“capitalism” – ed. – Wall St. “Repent,” by Jim Wallis, April 29,
2010

 

See also:

“An Evangelical Manifesto” Released – Many
Signers Contemplative Proponents (Signed
by Jim Wallis and a conglomeration of evangelical leaders such
as Kay Arthur, Max Lucado, Erwin Lutzer, John Ortberg, J.P.
Moreland – the point being, another example of co-mingling that
is blurring the lines.)

Obama appoints
“faith-based” advisory council