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It must feel good to go onto Twitter and accuse conservative Christians of rejecting biblical justice, and other cultural/actual sins. With this feeling should come empathy for same conservative Christians. After all, that& #39;s how they feel, criticizing "the world" in similar ways.
Old Moral Majority types: Movies and TV and pop culture promote rebellion against God& #39;s law! Flee from secular-worldliness at all costs.
New moral-majority types: Bad churches and conservative cultures promote injustice and worse! Flee from church-worldliness at all costs.
New moral-majority types: Bad churches and conservative cultures promote injustice and worse! Flee from church-worldliness at all costs.
Seriously: However they were flawed, you are flawed. They condemned the sins (both real sins and made-up sins) with little grace and less creativity. They had no imagination for kindly, cleverly *subverting* The World& #39;s problems and joyously pointing to the gospel. How about you?
It& #39;s time to stop blasting your fellow Christians with the dull bludgeons of "durrr, if you don& #39;t like social justice then you don& #39;t like Jesus" types of rants. Even on Twitter. It& #39;s a type of "witnessing" just as fake and effective as the corny altar calls in evangelical movies.
Feels real good. Effective. Gets lots of likes and Support. It& #39;s just new tech but the old moral majority structure-building. With this approach, you& #39;re just doing *that* all over again, and in about a generation if not now you& #39;ll have the same structural problems over again too.
A simple solution starts here: Whatever you wished your old Church Back Home would have done instead to engage the secular culture, that is how you must engage the conservative culture. Know their stories. Be a neighbor. Speak their language. And for God& #39;s sake, stop bludgeoning.
Otherwise, the bludgeoning approach is getting so bad that I& #39;m going to start unfollowing otherwise solid Christian leaders, even people I know and trust. They& #39;re not. Being. Missional. And they do not seem to have a clue about this (speaking plainly now) blundering incompetence.
Unless you aspiring Christian leaders who bludgeon conservatives quietly consider "conservative culture" too Bad to be considered a mission field worth a missional strategy? If so, switch the subject: How would you like it if the conservatives treated any people group like that?
My conclusion: If you claim to love God, but do not show love for the conservative Christian brother in front of you, and I see that, then I assume that you are a liar (1 John 4:20). Then my own charity kicks in. It& #39;s so easy to love platonic-ideal People over actual persons.
Why this thread? Because I also want reform in conservative churches! We must be more biblical, mindful of justice, diverse, active, and effective in evangelism. But anti-conservative bludgeoning will not help the Church any more than anti-"liberal" bludgeoning helps the world.
