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The Social Gospel Worship and Learning Center

Non-Governmental, Nonprofit Organization in Atlanta Ga.
Open today until 5:00 PM
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This week's ongoing Biblical study series for 3/18/23 on the Social Gospel Blog with Rev. Paul J. Bern: "Our Reasons for Worshiping Jesus" (click below for inspiration)

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This week's Sunday message for 03/12/23 on the Social Gospel Blog with Rev. Paul J. Bern: "America's War Culture; a Gross Misdirection of Resources" (click below if you're fed up with all of America's wars overseas)

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This week's ongoing Biblical study series for 03/11/23 from the Social Gospel Blog with Rev. Paul J. Bern: "The Apostle Paul Barely Escapes With His Life" (click below to gain more insight into God)

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Sunday message for 03/05/23 on the Social Gospel Blog with Author Rev. Paul J. Bern: "Why Technology Is Revamping Church As We Have Known It" (find out why this is turning out to be 'praise and worship' at an entirely new level)

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This week's ongoing Biblical study series for 02/04/23 on the Social Gospel Blog with Rev. Paul J. Bern: "One Day the People Loved Them, but They Are Thrown Out of Town the Next" (how in the world did this happen?)

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This week's Sunday message for 02/'26/23 on the Social Gospel Blog with Rev. Paul J. Bern: "Warnings From the Scriptures Regarding America's Future That Bear Repeating" (click below for fair warning)

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This week's ongoing Biblical study series for 02/25/23 on the Social Gospel Blog with Rev. Paul J. Bern: "A Very Busy Day and Night for Early Church Leaders" (click below to increase your Bible IQ)

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New nonfiction book by Rev. Paul J. Bern

Feb 21, 2023 – Mar 3, 2023

Now available exclusively on Amazon, "What We Want and Why We Want It" by Rev. Paul J. Bern ($19.95)

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This week's Sabbath Day message for 02/19/23 on the Social Gospel Blog with Rev. Paul J. Bern: "Millions Without Clean Water or Indoor Plumbing, and Not Enough People Care" (click below for a detailed report on the extent of this injustice)

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Where Truth, Justice and the Bible Meet

What's the Social Gospel? It means Christianity without the dogma, and faith without the spiritual pollution of conservative politics. The phrase “social gospel” is usually used to describe a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that came to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Those who adhered to a social gospel sought to apply Christian ethics to social problems such as poverty, slums, poor nutrition and education, alcoholism, crime, and war. Social Gospel. Advocates of the movement interpreted the Kingdom of God as requiring social as well as individual salvation and sought the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice. The Social Gospel was especially promulgated among liberal Protestant ministers.


Today, I am in the process of reviving and reinvigorating the Social Gospel into 21st century life. So, this is nondenominational Christianity viewed from a progressive or populist perspective, which is far closer to what Jesus originally taught than the ultra-conservative slant being taught today. What good is our faith if we hoard all our money and material possessions while ignoring the poor, the elderly, the mentally ill, the homeless, and the newly released prisoner? What good is our faith if we vehemently oppose abortion while fanatically sending our sons and daughters off to fight wars that only benefit a few? Finally, what good is our faith when we condemn same sex marriage while having a divorce rate within Christianity that is the same as the secular world? Jesus summarized it perfectly when he said, "I desire mercy, not sacrifice". American society -- or any other for that matter -- can measure how just and fair it is by the way in which they treat their most vulnerable citizens.  In so doing, we become ambassadors for Christ while living our lives in complete accordance with God's will.

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