Meditation On A Difficult Year.Melody Kay YoungDec 7, 20212 min readUpdated: Dec 15, 2021The white evangelical war on truth The (Real) War On Christmas The 2021 Lie of the Year Be still and know God is God....you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent... Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?“The ‘proud boys’ sit in your pews. A cross was erected outside the capital today, and the ‘Christian’ flag was flying. Scripture was all over shirts and signs. Time to call this out.” Someone called the Michigan parents “monsters”. But you go to church we these folks. Work. They’re neighbors. You know them. And you write off their words + actions because they don’t look scary to you. Then something happens and you call them monsters. When will you see? “These people who did this are our neighbors, our fellow Americans […]The attitude that this is a ‘both sides’ issue, or that we can all unite with people who would murder us, if they get into a mob like that, is unacceptable and evil.” “There was very much a parental feeling like ‘you can’t say that in front of my child, that's not the way we're going to raise our kids’,” explains the father-of-two, who lives in Northern Europe. Scott says the final straw came when his father tried to defend his mother’s viewpoint in an email, which included a link to a white supremacist video. He was baffled his parents could not comprehend the reality of people being victimised because of their background, especially given his own family history. “‘This is insane – you're Jewish’, I said. ‘Many people in our family were killed in Auschwitz’.” People aren’t deconstructing because it’s “sexy” or because they want to sin. People are deconstructing because many of the folks who first told them about Jesus have stopped living like him. 18 For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Source- Mercy Mondays: Chaplain’s Corner – Practicing a selah moment during the pandemicRemember when Christians cared about character?Remember when they valued love? Peace, be still. online worship
The white evangelical war on truth The (Real) War On Christmas The 2021 Lie of the Year Be still and know God is God....you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent... Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?“The ‘proud boys’ sit in your pews. A cross was erected outside the capital today, and the ‘Christian’ flag was flying. Scripture was all over shirts and signs. Time to call this out.” Someone called the Michigan parents “monsters”. But you go to church we these folks. Work. They’re neighbors. You know them. And you write off their words + actions because they don’t look scary to you. Then something happens and you call them monsters. When will you see? “These people who did this are our neighbors, our fellow Americans […]The attitude that this is a ‘both sides’ issue, or that we can all unite with people who would murder us, if they get into a mob like that, is unacceptable and evil.” “There was very much a parental feeling like ‘you can’t say that in front of my child, that's not the way we're going to raise our kids’,” explains the father-of-two, who lives in Northern Europe. Scott says the final straw came when his father tried to defend his mother’s viewpoint in an email, which included a link to a white supremacist video. He was baffled his parents could not comprehend the reality of people being victimised because of their background, especially given his own family history. “‘This is insane – you're Jewish’, I said. ‘Many people in our family were killed in Auschwitz’.” People aren’t deconstructing because it’s “sexy” or because they want to sin. People are deconstructing because many of the folks who first told them about Jesus have stopped living like him. 18 For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Source- Mercy Mondays: Chaplain’s Corner – Practicing a selah moment during the pandemicRemember when Christians cared about character?Remember when they valued love? Peace, be still. online worship
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