Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
Owen Strachanamazon.com
Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
There is no such thing as “race” in the modern sense. There are not different forms of humanity constituted by different skin colors. At the same time, our ethnic background is not nothing—to God or to us.
wokeness violates what the Apostle Paul expressly teaches. In Romans 8:1, we read, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
It is perennially tempting to come to one-factor conclusions about different social realities, but it is often best to step back, coolly think about what is before us, and not predetermine our analysis.
It is the speech of God that begets the man and the woman, not a cosmic accident.
Christianity and intersectionality—and wokeness more broadly—have polar-opposite views of the sexes.
Feminism overturns the biblical ideal of the woman, sexual libertinism severs sex from marriage and encourages men and women to act sexually without respect to morality, transgenderism revolts against the very concept of divine design in terms of identity and appearance, and homosexuality revolts against the sacred order in terms of sexual identity
... See morea crucial part of Christian ministry is clarifying the antithesis between Christianity and every other system.
If in practice we make truth narrative-driven and relative rather than theistic and absolute, we lose truth.
Skin color is not our unifying point, background is not our unifying point, and finances are not our unifying point. The Church is for repentant people—period.