Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
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Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
In woke Christian thought, the Gospel can give us a new birth, but it does not overcome and defeat our inherent participation in “whiteness” (if we benefit from it).
Owen Strachan • Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
But most importantly, because our present institutions derive their delegated authority from God, these institutions (individualism, family, church, and state) must first be deconstructed and stripped of their authority in order to fully eliminate God from society. In fact, for Marx, deliverance from the evils of capitalism cannot occur until all
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The end result of our preaching, evangelism, apologetics, and missions is not a box we check to indicate a personal commitment. It is obedience to everything Christ and His apostles taught from a true convert, born of Heaven, who knows what God’s Word demands and lives out their faith by the Spirit’s power.
Owen Strachan • Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
it is not our job to give Jesus good PR. We are not trying to “nice-ify” the Christian faith.
Owen Strachan • Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
There is no divine design in wokeness; there is only one’s personal identity, following one’s own heart, and expecting others to affirm one’s chosen path. This is what love is in wokeness: not transformation, but affirmation.
Owen Strachan • Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
“No one really has red, or yellow, or black skin. We all have the same basic color, just different shades of it. We all share the same pigments—our bodies just have different combinations of them.”
Owen Strachan • Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
A society that opposes racism is achievable; a society that ends all racism is a utopian fiction.
Owen Strachan • Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
We should not pursue a system of truth that molds to us; if we are to know God, we need a system of truth that molds to God.34 God defines truth, in other words, not us—not our race, our experience of oppression, or our own views.
Owen Strachan • Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
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.”