'Social' Gospel

I'd like to address a problem found primarily in the evangelical world today that I'll call the 'social' gospel. This term may already be used to mean something other than what I use it for, but regardless I think it's an appropriate title for the problem I see. If it causes any confusion, my apologies.
A misconception that I find is becoming more and more prominent in modern preaching is this idea that God's main purpose in saving a sinner is to make him/her a more positive, moral, or productive member of society. Christianity, by this logic, becomes about God trying to redeem a fallen culture into a more ideal one, ie. a culture based around self-sacrificing love and empathy for all. This sounds good, but it sounds so in a man to man sense. God could, essentially, be all but left out, or at least confined to the sidelines. If Christianity, or any religion for that matter, is about transforming society, then God becomes merely the means to reach that larger end, and this is nothing more than idolatry masked by good intentions. In the words of A.W. Tozer:

"Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used."

This 'social gospel' is wrong for a number of reasons. The first is that it stems from what I would say is an inadequate view of the effect of sin on mankind, and God's reaction to said sin. In many people's views nowdays, sin is merely something that makes God sad, because it keeps His people from the beautiful paradise He had initially planned for them. This is incorrect in so many ways. Sin does not merely sadden God. It angers Him. His wrath burns against it. God hates evil, and what's more He hates all who do evil (see Ps. 5:5). Our sin ignites the wrath of a holy God and righteous judge. And guess what? Contrary to popular belief, the reason He is angry is not because we're missing out on the great things He had planned to us (that's merely a man-centered view of things). He is angry because His holy name is being profaned. He is angry because pathetic little mortals think so highly of themselves that they willingly engage in despicable acts of cosmic treason, a slap in the face of a holy God.
The social gospel would view mankind as merely missing out on God's ideal global community, so the purpose of Christians would be to try and help usher in this utopia by being good little activists who serve their community and love everybody. Don't get me wrong, Christians are indeed supposed to serve their community, love everyone, and be a positive force in the world, but that is not out number one priority.
God's purpose in salvation is causing God-haters to become God-lovers, idolaters to become worshipers of the one true God. His purpose is to create for Himself a race and a people for His own possession, who would 'proclaim the excellencies of Him who called [them] out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).' Now it's true that these same people are to be zealous for good works (see Titus 2:14), absolutely, but our chief goal is to better know God, which stirs up passionate and all-consuming love and reverence of Him in us. Therefore, our focus should not be how we can better impact our community, but how we can better come to know the God Who has revealed Himself through Scripture for us to love Him more dearly. When that is our goal, our love for Christ will outpour into all of our social interactions as well, not merely to create a better society but to magnify Christ to a lost and hell-bound world.