Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, …Awake, sleeper, arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you.” Ephesians 5:11-14
“CANCEL CULTURE” is raging in America. It is defined as “a modern form of ostracism in which someone is thrust out of social or professional circles.” To cancel defined by Noah Webster is “to blot out or obliterate.” Currently, it is a ploy to cancel Truth and to replace it with the deceptions of excuses for sin.
It is real. Citizens are losing their media platforms, their acquaintances and associations, their volunteer positions, their reputations, even their jobs, if they dare to think differently than America’s “woke” elite. We are being “obliterated” from mainstream society and pushed to the fringes so that an emerging dark narrative can remain unchallenged.
Interesting that the target most often is Truth – raised by voices that echo Biblical morality — restricting abortion, a belief in the reality of only two genders and sex determined genetically, the Biblical view of homosexuality, support for traditional marriage, summoning any first amendment rights to liberty of religion, speech, personal freedom. Cancel culture attempts to cancel God.
Christians are commanded to “turn the other cheek,” “go the extra mile” and “love your enemy,” but this does not mean accepting our “cancelling” for speaking Biblical truth! Some in the church today call for more inclusivity, more affirmation. But Jesus also commands us to speak the truth, God’s truth (not the more culturally correct “your truth”); to be “salt and light” in a darkening world.
Teach the Children:
1. Cancel culture is “woke” construct to cancel God. Â
2. The church MUST remain true to its calling.Â
3. The risk of being “cancelled” gives space to enlighten Truth.
4. We must NOT ACCEPT our being “silenced.”
“Christianity thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.” (C.S. Lewis)