What is Speech Act theory This is David Wheaton host of The Christian Worldview The stated purpose of the recent Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel is to clarify the doctrines of God's Word with regard to race gender and sexuality When asked about the Statement one highly regarded pastor referenced Speech Act theory saying You can't just analyze words by what they say you also have to analyze words by what they do What it's really trying to say is ' don't worry about the poor don't care about the injustice ' Even if I could agree with [... more]

The reason the framers of The Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel wrote the document is spelled out in its Introduction We are deeply concerned that values borrowed from secular culture are currently undermining Scripture in the areas of race and ethnicity manhood and womanhood and human sexuality The Bible's teaching on each of these subjects is being challenged under the broad and somewhat nebulous rubric of concern for social justice [... more]