Thread by @Ptr_StephenFein

Some critiques I see of “white evangelicalism“ complain about some things the Bible actually clearly commands. It’s as if people disagree with what the Bible says, and want for themselves the final authority to disobey it and then blame a Christian subculture as if it’s because

2/ ethnicity. That’s ridiculous. And of course, I am pretty sure there will be simple blind spots as well as blatant errors in white evangelicalism, just as there is in black Christianity, Messianic Judaism, etc. That’s not my point. The point is this. When you critique white

3/ evangelicalism for the things that it actually gets right, you are making it clear that you value human epistemological authority over the Scriptures. You reveal that you have placed a lens of race and ethnicity over the scripture to such a degree that you will disparage what

4/ is true from a Christian subculture simply because of the culture of its majority. And yes, I understand that this cuts both ways. And I agree with that. I’m just telling you that vocal Twitter warriors seem to be coming from one side more than the other. And even if it can be

5/ argued that white Christianity is historically guilty of the same thing, it doesn’t mean the solution is to return fire. The solution is for all sides to embrace sola scriptura & semper reformanda. As a Jewish believer in Christ, I got receipts against both white Christian

6/ subculture and black Christian subculture. But you rarely see me up there exploiting it. Let’s instead all just become increasingly more biblical. How about that? Is that too revolutionary of an idea?