Most of us, including myself, project onto God our own view of Him. A view that has been soaked and tainted by our pain, fear, experiences and religious teaching.

We live in a culture and environment, even more so the young charismatic church now, where a longing for social justice is growing like wild fire. But if we are not careful, the mission of the Gospel and even the portrayal of God’s character and heart quickly become mixed with the spirit of the age and popular culture.

Often, this spirit is deeply rooted in hate and anger—pain. It is pain morphed into anger and hate, masqueraded as “justice.” That being said, we begin to worship a god, present a god and teach a god, that has quite different than the one we see in Scripture. One of my favorite quotes, “reacting in error creates more error” – Bill Johnson.

As I write this, I ponder the recent wild fires in Maui, HI. Horrendous desolation and damage done by fires that quickly amplified and spread. Professionals say that the fires started and amplified because of the already present heat and dryness, added with the winds from the nearby Hurricane Dora. It was a recipe for disaster and damage. When I think of this, I think about the parallels that pain can produce by anger, often very quick.

Pain, if not deal with, produces destructive emotions, actions and thoughts. These can be by the way of anger, fear, rage, bitterness, un-forgiveness. All of these can grow and spread quickly. In their spreading they become contagious and they desire to find “other company” to be with. “Misery loves company” can also be stated “as anger, rage and bitterness love company.” All of these if not dealt with seriously and quickly, spread like a disease to influence others.

So what does this all have to do with Jesus as a “raging social justice reformer & feminist?” I believe many of us “Christ followers” have sought out social justice and even portrayed Jesus through our social justice causes—from the wrong spirit and heart. The cause and mission was from anger and rage, deception—the wrong “spirit.” It was unrighteous justice (demonic) masqueraded as “Godly justice.” And this has been especially present in the movement of “women’s rights” and “feminism,” both in the church and out. I have seen this present among western church bodies.

We take our own pain and anger and un-forgiveness, and we look to attach it to something or someone else, and we call our reason or purpose with it “justified” or “justice.” With feminism and women’s rights, women wanting to become men, loud, big, manly and masculine—much of it comes from hurt and pain. I am not discounting where there was legitimate hurt, pain, abuse and dysfunction from men or women, to these women. But whether hurt and pain causing anger and rage was “justified” or not, God’s way is to move forward in healing and forgiveness, NOT anger and rage to “fix the problem.”

This is the illusion with anger and rage and social justice causes. Often, people, including those who have sought jobs like police, law or government roles—they seek these roles to find justice for their inner world pain and hurt. But as you know, it can never come or be found because it is a heart, inner world issue. I am not saying there are some cases where healing and restoration comes from connecting with, seeking, an external place or person that has caused the hurt and harm—but even those cases have to come in a posture forgiveness and humility.

Disorder does not fix order. Disorder does not fix and heal where order was hurt or abused. God’s way is the ONLY way to fix, heal and redeem pain, hurt and abuse. God’s love and way is the ONLY way to fix where order has become disorder. Reacting in Truth and Love fixes and helps error. Error does not fix error. Where Christ’ love manifest, justice is also manifested. Where Heaven manifests justice manifests. Justice is only justice when it is founded in Perfect Love, the realm and deep place of Father God’s heart and love.

Christ came to heal the sick, heal hearts, deliver the destitute and isolated ones. In the western world especially , we read onto the Scriptures that He was a social justice pioneer on earth. But it was not the case if read about His few years on earth. He didn’t teach people to fix the current system, He came to show his followers a higher reality of the Kingdom of Heaven. He came to show them a different dimension of living to tap into. He taught his believers to pray and love their enemies, not start campaigns beating their enemies over the head with “their truth.”

We don’t see Jesus storming the county courthouse, wearing ad-messaged shirts, storming. The only thing the He stormed was the temple, a religious “church” setting. He championed and furiously loved with grace and mercy, people one on one. Jesus brought forgiveness and healing by putting Himself in vulnerable and humble postures to connect directly with other’s hearts. When He taught, He taught about the Way of His Father and the Kingdom. He did not teach and talk about social issues, gender, men and women’s “rights.” He taught people to walk out love without conditions and live a Kingdom of Heaven – conscious life.