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This is an incredible moment of shaking and crumbling for the American Evangelical Church. Judgement has come for us and we have been “weighed in the balance and found wanting”. We have never before witnessed a more severe reckoning against our soteriology,
and against our inner worlds and our collective imagination. Our leadership is on its heels and the words coming out of our mouth and our “answers” being applied to this moment are revealing the bankruptcy of our eschatology.
Speaking of my tribe specifically (Charismatics) , the greatest theological problem we have been working to solve over the last 30 years is that God needs us to sing more songs to him. We’ve built everything on the idea that if we sing God will show up.
This is a deeply held belief. We actually believe that if we sing in the sincerest way possible that God will reveal his glory in a way that will change “atmospheres”. We have bet everything on this belief. And right now many of us are doubling down on this belief.
I say all that to get to this point: now is not the time for our explanations and/or photo opportunities. Our only reasonable response will cost us everything, and it should. It is time for us to take on the cruciform life, to get low, humble ourselves before the Lord ...
before our neighbors, before the stranger, relinquish power, become small, agree quickly with our “adversaries”, in self justification remain quiet but in repentance remain constant and loud, take seriously and apply the Sermon On The Mount into your locale, this is the work.
