'How Loser Theology Is Poisoning The Church & Our Other Top Stories This Week
1 - How Loser Theology Is Poisoning The Church by Michael Clary
Why do evangelical Christians have so little power in our society? According to some surveys, evangelical Christians comprise roughly 25% of the US population, and though we are known for our tendency to vote for conservative political candidates, we have little power outside of our political preferences.
Smaller groups, by contrast, have much greater power in proportion to their numbers. A Gallup survey estimates that 7.6% of adults identify as LGBTQ, yet despite their numbers, they wield extraordinary power in our society. Every major US industry–from tech to business to entertainment to education to government–are all dominated by radical feminists, pro-abortionists, LGBTQ activists, and godless secularists.
2 - Reformation Not Deconstruction by Jacob Tanner
Deconstruction is dumb. There. I said it.
Now, hear me out. Deconstruction, in its purest sense, is to take something apart—the exact opposite of construction—so that it can be put back together in a different way. If construction means to build something, often piece by piece, then deconstruction means to take something apart, similarly piece by piece, before examining it, and putting it back in a different way. In philosophy, it means to examine an idea, concept, or thing fully, in order to break down all its individual pieces, so that the inadequacies of the idea, concept, or thing can be revealed.
3 - How Unclean Spirits Destroy Civlizations by Owen Anderson
Our culture is falling apart. Conservatives often lament this decay, observing that as moral standards erode, communities become increasingly licentious until they ultimately collapse and require reconstruction. The standard explanation for this phenomenon is that it’s challenging to preserve societal values, whereas succumbing to immorality, sloth, greed, corruption, sexual perversion, and other vices is relatively easy.. However, I propose a different explanation for societal decay, one that applies not only to societies founded on general revelation principles but also to explicitly Christian societies.
In Of Antichrist and His Ruin, John Bunyan discusses the fall of Babylon, but what he articulates can be applied to the downfall of any society and not just the end of Babylon as a type of the kingdom of darkness. Bunyan says that as long as Christians are in Babylon, it can be influenced for good, but also that by its nature it attracts unclean spirits, and thereby becomes the habitation for the most vile of the sons of men.
4 - Our Nation Needs To Repent. How Do We Actually Do That? by Wes Martin
We are indebted to God for his many blessings to us as a nation. Though not the only nation to have experienced something like this, things like the founding of modern democracy that has established a constitutional republic with checks and balances, the Bill of Rights that has set a precedent for individual liberties and inspired human rights across the globe, massive economic blessing, innovation and entrepreneurship or Christian missions to the world, we’re beyond blessed and we know it. The term ‘American Exceptionalism’ has a lot of truth to it.
But here is the question: Have we offered the appropriate response of gratitude, worship and obedience to God for these many blessings? Have we stewarded such blessings well? I think we’d all agree that we have not.
5 - Dear Whiney Mommy Blogs... Here's What To Do When No-One Notices Your Hard Work by Lindsay Whitlow
I was scrolling social media last week when I saw an Instagram reel bemoaning the “invisible workload” that women bear. You know the type. Picture a first-world housewife sadly but gracefully folding a basket of clean laundry. She sighs deeply and gazes out a window. Instrumental piano music that could make you weep underlines the fact that this woman is miserable. A complete martyr. The caption: ‘That feeling when you work like a slave all day, but know that everything that you do will be undone by the time your husband gets home from work, and no one will ever notice how much you do. That’s the invisible workload that women carry.’ It wasn’t unique. I’ve seen hundreds of them. But the phrase “invisible workload” stuck out to me for the first time, and it made me walk down a dangerous line of thought.
First, I humbly suggest that if you have time to craft a video of yourself for the internet whining about how much of your life is wasted on petty housework, you don’t have nearly enough petty housework to do.