Thank you for saying this so clearly and succinctly. Your words echo the words I used with the congregation this past weekend (although perhaps a bit rawer 😊). My question to them was where is the Gospel in all of this? This mandate is strictly the Law without the saving grace of the Gospel. It’s not what (or how) I was taught to preach, and it’s a message born of fear and not love. Imagine a 10–12-year-old kid who has never been exposed to the word, feeling condemned before they even started, how is that sharing the good news?
There was a moment in professional wrestling some years back when they stopped pretending that the sport was a real sport. They admitted that the winner of the matches was decided before the wrestlers entered the ring. They even changed the definition of professional wrestling to sports entertainment. I feel like we're seeing the same thing with Christian Nationalism. Soon, they won't even pretend that it's ever been about religion.
And yet what a beautiful and Christian rant. Thank you for so beautifully expressing what so many of us feel during these times.
Thank you, Richard.
Thank you for saying this so clearly and succinctly. Your words echo the words I used with the congregation this past weekend (although perhaps a bit rawer 😊). My question to them was where is the Gospel in all of this? This mandate is strictly the Law without the saving grace of the Gospel. It’s not what (or how) I was taught to preach, and it’s a message born of fear and not love. Imagine a 10–12-year-old kid who has never been exposed to the word, feeling condemned before they even started, how is that sharing the good news?
Thank you, Rick, and thank you for reading. It’s all so breathtakingly the opposite of gospel.
There was a moment in professional wrestling some years back when they stopped pretending that the sport was a real sport. They admitted that the winner of the matches was decided before the wrestlers entered the ring. They even changed the definition of professional wrestling to sports entertainment. I feel like we're seeing the same thing with Christian Nationalism. Soon, they won't even pretend that it's ever been about religion.
Exactly.
Thank you. Thank you Thank you!
Thank YOU, Martha.
THIS!!!!!
Thank you! Preach away - this needed saying and you did so eloquently.
Thank you, Susan!
Amen
Thanks, Nancy, and thanks for reading.
Yes, yes, and yes!
Thank you, friend!
Amen sister! Everything you said.
Thank you, Lynn. More in the pipeline, lol.
Preach!! Amen and YOU SAID IT!!