Surviving Dystopia: Alternative Systems: Replacing the Modern Woke Church

By Tim Gamble

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Surviving the emerging dystopia requires, among other things, developing alternative systems. This includes developing an alternative to the modern woke church. I don't suggest creating any new religion, but simply returning to the old paths of the earliest Church. 

I suggest leaving modern woke churches, and finding a small Bible-believing, Bible-teaching congregation to join instead. Or find a home church or private Bible-study group to meet with on a weekly basis. Or start one of your own with family and friends who also believe in the Bible. 

How The Modern Church Went Woke

In the 1960s and1970s, modern feminism (anti-male, anti-family, anti-traditional values) began infecting many Christian Churches. Many pastors and other leaders did nothing, or even embraced modern feminism, often out of fear of losing members, donations, or even their jobs, if they didn't fit in with modern times.

In more recent decades, the concept of "social justice" (which is absolutely not the same as Biblical justice, see the book Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice) has infected many Christian Churches. Likewise, "environmental justice" - another non-Biblical concept - has also gained traction in many Churches, in some cases to such an extreme that it is bordering on creation worship. 

The desire to "fit in with the world" is condemned in Scripture many, many times. Yet, many modern Christians try to adopt worldly ways, thinking it is okay because they are giving it a supposedly "Christian" spin. It is not okay. We are followers of The Way, not followers of The World. We are called to be set-apart, not to fit in.

God Decides

God, and God alone, decides what is right and what is wrong, what is sin and what is not, what is good and what is evil. What God has decided is never "out dated" or "old fashioned." We have not "out grown" what God has revealed to us. We do not become relevant or authentic by rejecting God's Laws. The world may praise us for doing so, but God won't. 

Let me be clear on this: God decides what love is, not us. God decides how we are to love Him. God decides how we are to love others. We don't decide this for ourselves. God tells us exactly how we are to love Him, and how we are to Love others. It is NOT up to us to decide how we will love Him, or how we will love others. God has already decided this for us. Read the scriptures. Its all laid out right there. 

Worldly ways are not God's ways, and slapping a Christian bumper sticker on it won't change that fact. Follow God, not the World. Reject modern "Christianity" that tries to fit in with the World. Reject churches, pastors, and teachers that worry more about being seen as relevant than about pleasing God.

The Bottom Line 

Here is the bottom line: A Church should be unapologetically Bible-believing and Bible-teaching - and that means ALL of the Bible, from Genesis 1:1 through Revelation 22:21. 

No cherry-picking the "acceptable" passages. No avoiding the uncomfortable ones. No trying to "fit in" with the modern world. No denying the existence of Evil. No redefining sin to appease certain special interest groups. No trying to be a "safe space" for modern folks who get offended at every little thing they don't like. 

If your church is woke, drop it. Find one that isn't. If you can't, then find or start a home church or private Bible-study. You do not need a licensed minister with a theology degree in order to have a church. All you need, Biblically-speaking, is our high priest (Jesus the Messiah), the Holy Spirit, and two or more believers. 

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." --John 14:6

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