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.