Steve Coerper (21
May 2023)
"Beneath The Banner Of
The Woke"
What
The Pulpit Prioritises, The People Will Pursue
- This is the most insightful analysis of "wokeness" that I have
seen.
Wokeness is incompatible with the
Biblical worldview because it attributes intrinsic guilt or
innocence to the individual based on their group identity,
regardless of individual actions. Proverbs 17:15 condemns
this line of thinking: He who justifies the wicked, and
he who condemns the just, both of them alike are an
abomination to the Lord. What wokeness does is
attributes evil to so-called “oppressor” races and social
structures rather than to the real problem – sin.
The concept of being woke is an attempt to create moral
boundaries without God. It offers only a bleak and
hopeless world in which a stern and constantly shifting
morality subjects all to a judgement from which there can be
no redemption or restoration. Far more preferable is the
message of the gospel which, while it points to our deepest
moral failures because of the fall, offers us forgiveness
and a changed life through Jesus Christ.
Sadly, some pastors are ignoring the gospel and Great
Commission, instead choosing to take up the social justice
causes of our day in order to gain popularity with the
world. They blindly jump on the latest cultural train
without filtering its ideology and its goals through the
lens of Scripture. In so doing, the principle of cultural
relevance is being held in higher esteem than revelation
through God’s Word.
Sadly, this is the moral poison that is capturing America's
soul. Even more tragically, those on the receiving end
seem to be unaware of what's happening, what the end result will
be, and what we should be doing about it.