Deceptive Philosophy
In an age where Christian celebrities are publicly abandoning their faith and major Christian leaders are endorsing the notion that the gospel isn’t the solution to our social problems, you will feel the ever-increasing weight that if you believe and utilize the Bible in how we define and solve cultural problems, that you are irrelevant, out of date, tone deaf, and wrong for proposing that the blood of Jesus is the only thing that can cleanse this broken world.
However, the world’s solutions to the world’s problems are not the solutions to the problems. Unfortunately, until recently, being a Christian in America was as easy and natural as being a clown at a circus. We didn’t need to read and study the Bible to feel the comfort of Christianity around us. But like frogs in boiling water, as culture has shifted, the same Christians who grew up in American Christianity have been slowly adopting worldly philosophies and solutions while continuing to set scripture aside. There is a supreme and ultimate disconnect if we are passionately embracing the main terminology, ideas, and solutions from the world and not regularly reading and studying the Bible. If the former exists without the latter, Christianity simply and dangerously becomes a cultural theme that we entertain rather than a cross truly taken up.
No matter who says otherwise, Jesus Christ IS the hope of the world. His gospel is not “unhelpful” like I’ve heard a couple Christian leaders insinuate that I’ve grown up respecting. It’s the singularly pure, lasting, eternal, most beautiful truth of the universe. It will always, always, always be true. So I say, let the insults come. Let the peer pressure mount. Let all the kingdoms of this world both Christian and secular decide that Jesus is a second or third or last class solution. As the bride waiting for the groom, we love and help those in need and preach Christ crucified - in season and out.
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“See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.” Colossians 2:8
