One of the culture war’s more absurd mantras is the threat of evangelical leaders capitulating to worldly demands for justice out of an appetite for popular esteem.
This is pure propaganda.
This is pure propaganda.
https://twitter.com/seanfeucht/status/1330189606197858309
In fact the opposite is true: those who give any thought to popular opinion relish every opportunity to shock unbelievers with their abrasive rhetoric—thereby inviting backlash, which serves as a pretext for claims of persecution.
Under guise of combating “wokeness”—a vacuous notion contrived to provoke illiterate fear—men with evangelical platforms make unlearned and outrageous pronouncements on subjects ranging from political economy to public health.
Meanwhile, earnest pastors and seminary faculty find their employment threatened if they express godly, biblical, theologically orthodox concerns about manifest injustices in our present social order.
So as far as it concerns politics, the most salient threat to principled Christian leadership lies within evangelical culture itself.
...under *the* guise...
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