text: Okay. I see where you're coming from. I strongly disagree with you about God's number one concern. If that is your view, well then, of course freedom and charity don't matter all that much. 
  
  I take more of a Maxwellian view that God's number one concern is that we love and trust Him. The story of the Fall tells me that it is our refusal to love, trust and obey Him that leads to pain and suffering. And if God decided to insulate us in this life from the existential consequences of our refusals to love and trust Him, that would infringe on freedom. Kingdom living is all about demonstrating our love and trust through self-sacrificing charity. Important as the law is, it does not produce Kingdom living or the fruits of the Spirit - a reality that St. Paul profoundly ariticulated. 
  
  I am not against social justice advocacy  - i.e., legally mandated morality. It's fine for Christians, as citizens, to fight for what they believe are just laws. But that's not the role of the church.