Christ focused on social morality. When asked how to get saved, he first mentioned the Ten Commandments and then social justice (Luke 18:18-22). On judgment day, he said the criteria for who gets saved will be based on social justice (Mat 25:31-46).

Producing social justice is how a person purifies his own soul. It is also how he defines and demonstrates his moral state. Explaining why these points are true is the purpose here.

Personalized morality only takes care of the most visible and easy to understand problems. Socialized morality takes care of the subconscious forces which drive sin, and knowing how is not necessary. Simply going through the right motions fixes the problem.

Here's why. If a person does good for someone else, and the situation is such that there is no question about the justice, then doing that reverses all of the subconscious forces of sin which cause one to harm others. Reversing the direction of thought from harming others to helping others corrects subconscious forces which cause sin.

However, not any old situation will do. Helping friends and well-off persons is too exploitive. Doing good for nobodies and enemies is the most effective way to reverse the forces that cause sin.

Even attitudes correct themselves, if the situation is constructive enough. But of course the amount of fixing that needs to be done varies with the amount of corruption.

Purifying oneself is of course not the only purpose for producing social justice. In fact, it generally never is the individual's purpose, it's only the consequence. Producing the result of justice has plenty of moral significance, because it moves other activities in a constructive direction and teaches by example what morality is.

There are a lot of vagaries that need to be addressed in terms of what is justice and how to produce it. To clear up vagaries, definitions are absolutely essential. Definitions can vary, but a good starting point is needed to show how all of the factors interact.

Justice is the result which truth produces. For example, if Congress passes a good bill, it's because the truth caught up to them, not because they happened to be moral that day. That's why Johnson said, "You convinced me, now go out and make me do it." Only if the power of truth flows in that direction, can justice be produced.

So truth needs to be understood. Truth is the ability to bring the universe down and apply it to human activities. Nobody can defy truth, because it has the universe behind it. It therefore creates its own force, which is the force of justice.

Sin is the only real problem there is. Without sin, problems become nonexistent. Sin cannot exist in the light of truth. So developing truth about sin ends the sin. Ending the sin is justice.

That's why "it is not on bread alone that man lives but on every word of God's" (Mat 4:4). What that means is that producing justice through direct action is much more limited than producing justice through truth. However, the concepts are inseparable. Some direct action is one of the most effective means of producing truth about injustices.

In the world, the social activists often talk about empowering the powerless. Small amounts of power are needed for everything. But as a goal, power is quite corrupted. It takes power to produce injustices (same as sin), because people try to protect themselves from injustices. Power is the ability to bowl them over. So corrupted persons, with satan behind them, take over sources of power and use them to perpetrate injustices.

Even if evil persons were not going to grab power out of the hands of other persons, the victims of injustice cannot do anything more with power than anyone else. And in most cases, they are less well equipped to handle power, because they do not have experience with it. So power should not be the slogan used in attempting to produce social justice.

Instead of telling other people what to do, the answer to injustices is simply producing the truth and then letting other persons decide how to respond. Decision makers have to design their own paths, if they are going to follow them.

So was Christ talking about redesigning the world or saving souls? Morality is based on a concern for the victims of injustice, which involves a real result. But it is the means of producing the result that most correctly defines the result. There is not much redesigning that can occur in the world while staying within the realm of justifiable means.