From Mike Adams (read the whole thing for his examples of weak-knee pastors, emphasis mine, reformatted):
Last week, a young Christian male asked me a pretty direct question. He wanted to know whether I ever worried that my blunt commentary on social media was “turning people away from Christianity.” I thought it was an honest question. So I gave him an honest answer. I told him that I believe the problem is just the opposite of what he considers it to be. In other words, it isn’t occasional blunt commentary that turns people away from Christianity. It is the constant displays of Christian cowardice that make people both reticent to join and quick to attack us.
…I’m just sad that in the last sixteen years, I have learned that at least three quarters of the pastors who actually know what is right still lack the intestinal fortitude to take a stand for what they believe.
Many Christians are fed up with the capitulation of the church and respond in a way that is different from my chosen response. Rather than continuing to try and find a courageous pastor, they simply stop going to church. So this raises an interesting question: If Christians actually stop going to church because they are tired of pastors refusing to take a stand is it possible that some people never seriously consider Christianity in the first place for the same reasons?
…After reading several hundred of my “blunt commentaries” he came across one talking about the New Testament and how to approach reading it. So he sat down and read the New Testament. Instead of killing himself, he converted to Christianity.
I had the pleasure of meeting this fine young man two years ago when I was speaking in Ohio. He is now very happy and living a productive life working in the conservative movement. I’ll never forget his explanation for previously refusing to consider Christianity. It is a paraphrase but he basically told me the following: “For a long time I would never consider converting because I thought you had to be weak and passive in order to be a Christian.”
Let that sink in for a minute. The next time you self-censor you may be hurting Christianity, not helping it. We need brave young warriors not spineless “evangelists” who are more concerned about being liked than influencing the culture.
In a nutshell, Jesus was not Mr. Rogers. He had little tolerance for the smug moral superiority of those who grasp the truth but lack the faith and courage necessary to defend it.
If you are not standing up for your faith:
- What is it that you REALLY believe?
- What good are you?
I have made no secret that I am an Evangelical Christian that that my faith is the foundation of my world outlook. Sure, I have taken it on the chin from Establishment Republicans, on one side, for my stances on “those icky social issues” (like traditional marriage and being pro-life; after all, ALL social issues have fiscal costs as well as moral ones) and Libertarians on the other side.
There’s the traditional Right vs Left (Repub vs Dem) on the X political axis and then the Y axis is Statism (Big and Bigger Government) and Freedom (Individual Freedom) and you can pretty well peg where I stand on both of those.
But on the political Z axis is Right and Wrong, and that is where my faith and principles stand. Too many in the political arena either don’t want to go there at all, trapped in the situational ethics / relative morality hewed to by the secular humanism, or the outright hatred promulgated by the Left towards Christianity (and no, I’m not talking about the limp wristed Mainline Protestant denominations as they have already turned away from their first love and have forgotten the admonition that we are to be in this world but not of it) as they hate the fact that they can be judged by those of us of simply in contrast. They also hate the fact that our allegiance is not to them and their love of Government but to God.
After all, for them, NOTHING can be allowed like that – and we see their attempts to erase both the Free Expression of faith in the public square and actively trying to crush any dissent thereof (using anti-discrimination ordinances and laws to override Constitutional Liberties).
What will you do? Do you have the courage of and for your faith? How will you be known, in this time?
Or is it your decision to retreat and hide in the hammock of “not this world but the next”?
(H/T: Townhall)
