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I receive more DM's than I can respond to from people in different walks of life on many social media platforms. One type in particular that I get is from black christians on the fence about the faith or nonChristians.
Both have issues with the way christianity is branded in the west. Their questions surround racism and injustice and western Christianity's role in it. Most of the time its millennials, now its gen Z reaching out. They are asking valid questions
most of it debunkable, yet most of it all is an indictment. From questions on christianity being the white man's religion to historical fallacies. Those who have trolled my posts on race and justice or those movement leaders in evangelicalism who have blindly supported the
current administration, foolishly called biblical and theological resistance flowing the gospel "CRT", "Marxism", "Ethnic Gnosticism" have done severe damage to the mission of the gospel among black people globally. Although I believe in the sovereignty of God in Salvation
The bible clearly says you can bruise fruit by leading people astray (Matt 18:6, Mark 9:42, Isaiah 9:16). My evangelism in the black community (even recently) has to be colored by working to make sure I am preaching a decolonized gospel in both content and scope.
What is the content of the Gospel (what it is) (1Corinthians 15:1-3) and The Scope of the Gospel (what does does) (Isaiah 61:1-2, Romans 16:25, Galatians 2:14)?
IDK whether it is that some are just blinded by the sinfulness of racism and fearful of what they will lose or is this the fruit of an unregenerate soul who has a form of godliness but denies the gospel's power! I'm not trying to figure that out.
All I know is that Justice in the words of Jesus is a weighty matter in scripture and it is a massive challenge in our culture. I have several mentors between the ages of 67-90 yrs old and they say they have never seen this level of division.
In the church or in the world. All sober godly men who have walked with Jesus longer than I have been living see it this way, the divisiveness is rooted in the unrepentance of western christianity. My hope is that those of us that see what is happening a bit clearer will
not let those who refuse to repent disturb the narrative of what needs to happen for the body to walk in the unity that Christ secured on the cross. We are not trying to fight for unity, we are to fight from our unity in Jesus...
