There’s a Twitter account called “Woke Preacher Clips” that I started following over the last month. The purpose of the account is exactly what it sounds like. It takes clips that spring up on the internet from woke churches and displays them for all the world to see, much like Libs of TikTok does.
You should definitely go check it out yourself, but some of the greatest hits include a preacher linking the Nashville shooter to Jesus…
I wondered if the mainline response to Nashville would be a little less crazy than usual, but nope, we've already got a tortured analogy linking Jesus' crucifixion to the transgender mass shooter pic.twitter.com/ULm1xi9BoV
— Woke Preacher Clips (@WokePreacherTV) April 3, 2023
And a transgender/drag queen accusing the church he’s speaking at of being racist and bigoted, and suggesting the crowd he’s speaking to is as well.
Today in "You Will Never Be Woke Enough":
"If the [United Church Of Christ] was really as open and affirming as it claims to be, then there would be trans people of color in every UCC church. But that would also require the UCC to reckon with its white supremacy culture." pic.twitter.com/FU9brI6AEs
— Woke Preacher Clips (@WokePreacherTV) March 27, 2023
There are a ton more videos, each of them as infuriating as the last. Christians will recognize this as something that seems so far removed from God and Christ that it’s a wonder they would even call themselves a church at all.
If a venue that primarily featured drag shows put on a “Church” theme night, it’d hardly be any different. It’s not a celebration of Christ’s word or the might, power, and love of God. This is simply a worship of the self. It’s expressing extreme ideological nonsense and then falsely proclaiming that “Jesus says this is cool” by cherry-picking Bible verses.
But these are just the extreme examples that are easily called out. The devil is far more subtle and clever. While he likely enjoys seeing radical leftist ideology invade the church space, it probably complicates matters for the ultimate destruction of the church because it brings so much attention to the invasion.
There’s a very real underlying problem that the devil and his ilk have spent a much longer time whittling away at, and I consider this far more dangerous.
It’s the way faith is viewed by many today, and I don’t just mean outside the church.
Faith is the underpinning of belief in Christ. It’s the thing that ties believers to the word of God and to one another. As such, it’s incredibly important not to misdirect your faith, and it’s here we see where the devil is truly clever. In today’s modern world, the devil can convince you that you “have faith in God” while slightly offsetting God as the target of your faith and causing you to put your faith in the mere idea of God.
A perfect example is this tweet from a Twitter user that features a sticker. The sticker shows a stained glass window with a rainbow as the glass and the words “My faith does not discriminate” above it.
My faith does not discriminate.
A strong NO on any bill that attacks the healthcare of our most vulnerable children. #TXLege #ProtectTransKids pic.twitter.com/KxhbyB7hVh
— Rafael Anchía (@RafaelAnchia) May 2, 2023
To a practiced Christian, the issue with this sticker couldn’t be more obvious, but to a person just getting to know Christ for the first time or a young person who doesn’t know any better, this could easily fool someone.
The underlying message here is that Christ loved everyone and so should you, and this means acceptance of those whose worldviews don’t line up with yours, including traditional Christian beliefs. Indeed, Christ was all about loving your neighbor, but the part getting thrown out here is that Christ wasn’t accepting of sin and homosexuality is definitely a sin.
This leads to the inevitable argument that God wouldn’t make a mistake and some people were born that way, so you have to respect what God created.
Here you see the shift in putting faith in an idealized version of God and not God Himself.
They’re right in that God doesn’t make mistakes, but they hold competing views such as transgender people being born in the wrong body and thus, the problem needs to be corrected through hormones, surgeries, and societal acceptance.
Logically, their position is that God did indeed make a mistake and it takes people to correct it.
This isn’t faith in God, it’s faith in people. It’s the idea that an all-powerful creator, a multi-dimensional being with hands on the reigns of time and space, and the universal master mathematician who charted everything from the path of the uncountable stars to the descent of a singular snowflake falling from the sky, somehow got this part wrong and that His Earthbound creation has to correct it for Him.
That is abject lunacy, but that lunacy is dressed up with so much virtue signaling and modern sentiment that it can cause people to stumble into something that they think is faith in God but isn’t.
And that is the true danger of these woke churches.
The good news is that God isn’t so easily defeated and the Bride of Christ is feisty when roused, but it is time to be roused. These woke churches need to be disproved, discredited, and especially mocked with extreme prejudice. It needs to be made clear to the world that this is not Christianity and that those who truly want to know Christ need to distance themselves from those preaching love while selling lies.
