“What are you preaching on these days?” I asked a pastor in the Midwest. He replied, “Right now, I’m doing a series on the gospel of the kingdom, the gospel of social justice.” Thankfully, I knew him well enough to know that he also believed in the necessity of individual conversion through faith in Christ. But I also knew him well enough to know that the gospel of personal conversion is near the bottom of his list of priorities. “Social justice” can mean many different things to different people. For some, it is the gospel of socialism, the Marxist notion that resources need to be equally distributed through government intervention, control, and ownership. This, in their minds, results in a just and fair society; only then can the oppressed experience “social justice.”