This is a text to remind us that faith has implications for politics, for the way American society should look, for we are reminded that the promised Messiah will execute justice (v. 5). Well-known 20th-century social commentator Reinhold Niebuhr described in a penetrating way how large segments of American Christianity (esp. the white church, but increasingly pockets of the black church) have failed to get this word out: "Much of Christian teaching down the ages has been in terms of serving or saving the soul, but not the body.
