"Man, I'm so sad to hear about Charlie Kirk! I didn't agree with him on things, but this breaks my heart and makes me sick to my stomach. Praying for his family. What a horrible tragedy!"
Why the clarification needed? When a celebrity dies, I don't go "I didn't agree with him on things". Oh it's because he's a right leaning voice who spoke boldly.
I'm a Christian and this guy has been irritating me for a while.
Uses the Bible to try to justify illegal invasion, tries to paint the right as too hateful even though our response to Charlie Kirk has been prayer and communicating.
Here's another video of his that points his liberal framework and how he's mixing it up with Christianity
The video I linked just there, this was my comment response way back then when it was uploaded
"The Christians today who are like "both sides are bad" would have been in Nazi Germany and gone "hey, theres bad people on each side"
One side wants to kill babies, sexualize children, stands for everything God hates....and the other side makes memes dunking on the left.....man it's so hard to figure out what the more moral party is.
Christians are LESS political than they used to be. In the early 2000s Christians would protest Marilyn Manson concerts, and fight against the war on Christmas and protest abortion clinics. NOW its a good and rare day if Christians protest abortion clinics and drag queen story hours.
What's different is the VISIBILITY of people's politics because of social media.
People mistake an increased visibility with an increase in politics.
The fact is, Christians need to be more involved in the war on culture, not less, because in our absence, pagan beliefs will carve the moral landscape.
Go ask Lebanon which was a Christian nation from the 40s til the 70s about how their passivism "just be kind and tolerant and neglect Jesus' command to be wise as serpents" attitude worked out for them.
Now in all things, we are to be in the Spirit and not be ungodly and full of the fruit of the flesh which is anti-Christ. But this "nice" Christianity which scolds with harshness "safe" topics like "right wing extremism", but uses kiddy gloves and a much different tone about things like black culture and black crime or feminism, things like that, injustices that you can't go "too hard" about in this culture is very disheartening.
As it says "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord".
Well we have a very false balance and unfortunately, many churches in their fear of man, and fear of culture add to that false balance by their giving different considerations and weights to different topics based on how they'll be perceived.
Understand this. Christians are not getting more angry about politics than we used to. We're getting more angry at more abominations arising in this country. If you take an assessment of the time, you'll see this isn't the time of the 1980s where people had "political differences". We are in a battle between opposing religions, one that is Christian, and one that is pagan. Now this was true in the 1980s as well, but the average person still had a semi-biblical worldview back then. It's a radically different time now.
If a Christian is a soldier, is his shooting of enemies on the battlefield him walking in the flesh? No, Christians can be soldiers, there's no command that it's immoral.
Well likewise, we're in a cultural battle, a very severe one and Christian churches typically now shy away from going out and preaching what is actually a merciful message that is to repent otherwise you'll die in your sins and go to hell....oh they'll have no problem preaching to their own congregation about how "being American and conservative" won't save you and how you're just as destined for hell as the woke on the left....Christians routinely hear that message in pews, but when it comes to the woke left, churches generally speaking are doing them an evil disservice by not preaching repentance and scaring them about the reality of hell. They won't go and preach some harsh truths to some of the most sacred cows in our society. Instead they'll have outreach programs where they go and hug them and just tell them they're loved, while saving the harsh sermons for their mostly white conservative congregates on Sunday morning.
The woke left have no shortage of people "supporting them" and being "nice to them". The church needs to understand that in a lot of ways, they're treating the pharisees of our time like the woman at the well, and treating the woman at the well of our times like the pharisees. This is an injustice and is a false balance and does a disservice to both parties. Failing to encourage the church as we see in all the epistles in the Bible, while leaving the unsaved uninformed about the terrifying state of not having Jesus' forgiveness, leaving you a child of wrath.
When Alice Cooper got saved, he was a heavy drunk, unrepentant, and it took reluctantly going to a church that kept preaching about sin leading you to hell for him to come back to God (He grew up in the church and was a pastors kid).
I believe if the average person who practices homosexuality, or is all about Black Lives Matter or other black supremacist groups, or anything else that is culturally acceptable went into your average church today, their flesh would not feel very attacked. They'd hear how the congregants need to stop being so divisive and start to make bridges, and that person would walk away not too challenged, with only the congregants going away feeling convicted.
You want to build a bridge? Preach God's word. Bring them across the bridge. The point of a bridge isn't to meet in the middle, it's to get people into the kingdom of light out of the kingdom of darkness.
Many churches seem to want to "have a conversation" on the middle of the bridge because it FEELS more humble, and FEELS more loving, but there's nothing loving about leaving someone unaware of the danger of hell and the state that they're in.
So I would say is preach the Bible not fearing who you offend on the right or the left, including even the most sacred of sacred cows in our society, and let God's word sort people out. "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow." Hebrews 4:12
It is my experience that many Christian leaders are happy to see the word of God be sharp for a Christian in terms of convicting them, but when a sacred cow comes along, they want to soften the blade so that the sting doesn't hurt so much.
If you try to soften the blade that is the word of God, you take away from it's ability to save, to heal, to pierce the soul. Let the word of God be sharp and let the culture be offended by it. It was never not going to be offended by the word of God, and if you're finding that you want to spare the culture from offense, you need to realize, that's not something found in the Bible and is actually opposite to a lot in the Bible.
This is not to say "go be jerks for Jesus" and mock people and yell at them. I would say Charlie Kirk is an example of someone who is strong and uncompromising without being mean. I would say he and Ken Ham are both good examples of how to stand strong on God's word without being a jerk."
He made a youtube post and tweeted out
"Man, I'm so sad to hear about Charlie Kirk! I didn't agree with him on things, but this breaks my heart and makes me sick to my stomach. Praying for his family. What a horrible tragedy!"
Why the clarification needed? When a celebrity dies, I don't go "I didn't agree with him on things". Oh it's because he's a right leaning voice who spoke boldly.
I'm a Christian and this guy has been irritating me for a while.
Uses the Bible to try to justify illegal invasion, tries to paint the right as too hateful even though our response to Charlie Kirk has been prayer and communicating.
Here's another video of his that points his liberal framework and how he's mixing it up with Christianity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-uVr33H5Yk
The video I linked just there, this was my comment response way back then when it was uploaded
"The Christians today who are like "both sides are bad" would have been in Nazi Germany and gone "hey, theres bad people on each side"
One side wants to kill babies, sexualize children, stands for everything God hates....and the other side makes memes dunking on the left.....man it's so hard to figure out what the more moral party is.
Christians are LESS political than they used to be. In the early 2000s Christians would protest Marilyn Manson concerts, and fight against the war on Christmas and protest abortion clinics. NOW its a good and rare day if Christians protest abortion clinics and drag queen story hours.
What's different is the VISIBILITY of people's politics because of social media.
People mistake an increased visibility with an increase in politics.
The fact is, Christians need to be more involved in the war on culture, not less, because in our absence, pagan beliefs will carve the moral landscape.
Go ask Lebanon which was a Christian nation from the 40s til the 70s about how their passivism "just be kind and tolerant and neglect Jesus' command to be wise as serpents" attitude worked out for them.
Now in all things, we are to be in the Spirit and not be ungodly and full of the fruit of the flesh which is anti-Christ. But this "nice" Christianity which scolds with harshness "safe" topics like "right wing extremism", but uses kiddy gloves and a much different tone about things like black culture and black crime or feminism, things like that, injustices that you can't go "too hard" about in this culture is very disheartening.
As it says "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord".
Well we have a very false balance and unfortunately, many churches in their fear of man, and fear of culture add to that false balance by their giving different considerations and weights to different topics based on how they'll be perceived.
Understand this. Christians are not getting more angry about politics than we used to. We're getting more angry at more abominations arising in this country. If you take an assessment of the time, you'll see this isn't the time of the 1980s where people had "political differences". We are in a battle between opposing religions, one that is Christian, and one that is pagan. Now this was true in the 1980s as well, but the average person still had a semi-biblical worldview back then. It's a radically different time now.
If a Christian is a soldier, is his shooting of enemies on the battlefield him walking in the flesh? No, Christians can be soldiers, there's no command that it's immoral.
Well likewise, we're in a cultural battle, a very severe one and Christian churches typically now shy away from going out and preaching what is actually a merciful message that is to repent otherwise you'll die in your sins and go to hell....oh they'll have no problem preaching to their own congregation about how "being American and conservative" won't save you and how you're just as destined for hell as the woke on the left....Christians routinely hear that message in pews, but when it comes to the woke left, churches generally speaking are doing them an evil disservice by not preaching repentance and scaring them about the reality of hell. They won't go and preach some harsh truths to some of the most sacred cows in our society. Instead they'll have outreach programs where they go and hug them and just tell them they're loved, while saving the harsh sermons for their mostly white conservative congregates on Sunday morning.
The woke left have no shortage of people "supporting them" and being "nice to them". The church needs to understand that in a lot of ways, they're treating the pharisees of our time like the woman at the well, and treating the woman at the well of our times like the pharisees. This is an injustice and is a false balance and does a disservice to both parties. Failing to encourage the church as we see in all the epistles in the Bible, while leaving the unsaved uninformed about the terrifying state of not having Jesus' forgiveness, leaving you a child of wrath.
When Alice Cooper got saved, he was a heavy drunk, unrepentant, and it took reluctantly going to a church that kept preaching about sin leading you to hell for him to come back to God (He grew up in the church and was a pastors kid).
I believe if the average person who practices homosexuality, or is all about Black Lives Matter or other black supremacist groups, or anything else that is culturally acceptable went into your average church today, their flesh would not feel very attacked. They'd hear how the congregants need to stop being so divisive and start to make bridges, and that person would walk away not too challenged, with only the congregants going away feeling convicted.
You want to build a bridge? Preach God's word. Bring them across the bridge. The point of a bridge isn't to meet in the middle, it's to get people into the kingdom of light out of the kingdom of darkness.
Many churches seem to want to "have a conversation" on the middle of the bridge because it FEELS more humble, and FEELS more loving, but there's nothing loving about leaving someone unaware of the danger of hell and the state that they're in.
So I would say is preach the Bible not fearing who you offend on the right or the left, including even the most sacred of sacred cows in our society, and let God's word sort people out. "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow." Hebrews 4:12
It is my experience that many Christian leaders are happy to see the word of God be sharp for a Christian in terms of convicting them, but when a sacred cow comes along, they want to soften the blade so that the sting doesn't hurt so much.
If you try to soften the blade that is the word of God, you take away from it's ability to save, to heal, to pierce the soul. Let the word of God be sharp and let the culture be offended by it. It was never not going to be offended by the word of God, and if you're finding that you want to spare the culture from offense, you need to realize, that's not something found in the Bible and is actually opposite to a lot in the Bible.
This is not to say "go be jerks for Jesus" and mock people and yell at them. I would say Charlie Kirk is an example of someone who is strong and uncompromising without being mean. I would say he and Ken Ham are both good examples of how to stand strong on God's word without being a jerk."