When Church Leaders Parrot Fake Media Narratives about memes

Many such cases

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Ours sticks to Scripture and doesn't get into politics unless something happening in the world directly affects our church

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In my view, your shepherd should consider if Jesus' command to teach all things addresses God's will for nations? Or maybe to approach the subject from a different angle, how does a shepherd who exegetes the Word of God avoid speaking to "political" issues?

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As followers of Jesus, we can't just shrug at language or attitudes that divide people along racial lines.

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So every leftist politician and celebrity has rejected Christ. Tell us something we don’t already know, motherfvcker.

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Ours sticks to Scripture and doesn't get into politics unless something happening in the world directly affects our church. If it does, he offers a direct Scriptural interpretation that he follows, but he does so without intentionally offending others. It's pretty solid.

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We just had our men’s retreat with guest speaker Dr. Michael Kruger (top-notch NT scholar). It was so fundamental and deeply Gospel-rooted, it’s hard for me to even imagine this junk in our church.

Then, in this morning’s service, our pastor referenced the aberrant virtue-signaling practice. Actually in a mildly admonishing fashion:

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The gospel is what unconvinced people need, and the gospel is what convinced people need.

Look in verse 15 [of Rom 1] He [Paul] says, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. Now you is plural, to y'all who are in Rome. When he says that, he means when I'm in Rome, I mean, it is a global city. I hope I get as much spread as I can with as many different kinds of people as I can.

But the first recipients would be these Christians. Romans is written to Christians.

He says, I am eager to come preach to people who already believe in Jesus. You already believe the good news. Why is that important?

I have wondered before, and I hope this doesn't sound combative. I don't think I'm ever gonna do this. But I have wondered before just as an experiment, if I came in one Sunday and without telling you ahead of time I was going to do this, if I just preached a diatribe about some cultural issue, about this is right and that is wrong, and here's where we stand as a church, and if I never mentioned Jesus, but just loud and clear about some ethical stand, just a stemwinder.

I've wondered if some people would come up out of their pew in a standing ovation. And I know that some of you must wonder about, there's all these cultural issues going on right now. Why do we keep talking about Jesus?

Well, first off, we do talk about those cultural issues because sometimes the text addresses them. Or application is made about those cultural issues as we seek to apply God's word. But the gist of what we're coming with week after week is what?

It's this thing that the risen Christ has entrusted to the church to give to anyone who will listen. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ. And Christians need to hear it over and over and over.

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