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February 18, 2024

I was fortunate enough to see an early screening of a brand-new film based on Eric Metaxas’ best-selling book, Letter to the American Church. The hour-long film, which shares the book’s name, vividly lays out the case that it is high time Christians in this country got seriously involved in the cultural and political arena.

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The author’s narration is accompanied by rapid-fire images that help convey the urgency of the days in which we live. They force us to acknowledge things that, a mere dozen or so years ago, were unthinkable: Kindergarten children at drag queen shows; males competing in girls’ sports because they are convinced they are females; free speech being silenced; getting fired for “misgendering” a coworker; and the government shutting down churches and keeping strip clubs open in the name of “science” and a mysterious virus to name just a few profound changes in America that are now the norm. Even “business as usual” is more “business as unusual” in a corporate world that mirrors the culture, hoping in that way to achieve the largest profit margins.

And what has the Church these past many years been doing to slow the roll of this Looney Tunes juggernaut? Unfortunately, in many cases, the Church has jumped right on the merry-go-round, displaying rainbow and BLM flags and welcoming gay pageantry right into the sanctuary.

For those churches at the forefront of welcoming the left, it is a pretty sure bet that they are not really “Christian” in any true sense (“By their fruit you will know them”). But what excuse does the true, professing Church have for not giving these same leftist initiatives some heartfelt resistance?

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Do we in the Church believe that being “nice” is the way to “win the lost”? Or do we believe that compromise is the best way to deal with difficult, contentious situations, forgetting that we have been advised “not to give the devil a foothold”?

Image: A church’s pride message in Sioux Falls. YouTube screen grab.

If it helps, think about it this way when you consider the fact that the faithful keep compromising with the left:

The left is a wall. And that wall, standing for some nutty idea it wants to make mainstream, begins by saying to those of you who stand in front of it, albeit at some distance, “Hey, meet me halfway.” So, you take a couple of steps closer. But the left, just like a wall, stays right where it is because it is immovable. Then, a little while later, the wall again says, “Hey, meet me halfway.” And, again, you comply.

Pretty soon, it begins to dawn on you where this is going. That leftist wall has not moved an inch, but you are now standing right up against the wall.

In a well-meaning Church, some might even begin to side with the wall. They are looking back at other people now and saying along with the wall, “Hey, meet us halfway!”

You see, the wall doesn’t move. It doesn’t even say, “Oops,” for small or great errors. Doing so could cause a dangerous shift in its foundation, and that’s not going to happen. Instead, in many instances, the Left is silent, and in many wrong-move situations, it reinforces itself by doubling down.