Our Good, Bad, and Ugly online Faith

There is so much contention in the online Christian community.  Everyone MUST take a side, and just like politics, it seems people pick a side while leaving no place for the nuance of opinions. YES v NO, BLACK v WHITE, Calvinist v Free Will, OSAS or NOT, Women Preachers...Yeah or Nah, and of course, CATHOLIC versus PROTESTANT. 

And now, today, we have WOKE-Theologians powered by Big EVA.  Woke? Theologians? Is that an oxymoron?

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We are not content on majoring on the majors to love God, & care for others as the two greatest commandments Matthew 22:36-40 and minor on the minors (almost everything else) because on X (formerly Twitter), EVERY TOPIC is treated as a MAJOR.

While minor issues are often important, let's prioritize and share the core message of our faith. Let's not lose sight of the Gospel message for salvation. Our goal should be to lead others to know God and to seek to honor Him in all that we say and do.  

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If you spend any time on X, you find most all faith topics are debated in short, terse, blurted opines and/or put-downs of those they disagree with. The unspoken rules are 1. There must be a winner or loser, and 2. an unspoken bonus is available if you declare someone a HERETIC.

It is easy to get caught up in a situation even when you believe you are the peacemaker. I have too often tried to share the voice of reason until someone blows up on me with a snide post. 

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​Ohhh, then I want to (and sometimes do) send return fire in hopes of putting my 'now declared enemy' in their place.

But I digress, as I am posting today imploring for a kinder, gentler X.

The truth is, no matter how smart or spiritually deep any of us think we are, we are very finite and limited, and so we are better off spending most of our time encouraging each other in this life to love our God with our lives.

The rest will be trivial pursuit by comparison.

Blessings,

​Jeff (armed with strong opinions) Larson

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Caring or a Karen 

Lemon Sucker

Why so serious?

Service or Serve us?