From a distance, many Christian churches look alike. They may have a steeple and stained glass windows and sing familiar songs, but the theology is increasingly different as independent churches and some denominations adopt a woke worldview, splintering denominations and splintering what it means to be a Christian.
Today, some churches are among those that fly the rainbow flag to welcome the LGBT community. Some in the LGBT community have become preachers. Some dress in drag in the pulpit. Many of the same churches are telling their congregations when to support abortion. They speak of racism, climate change, and politics.
The term “woke” is used by both liberals and conservatives to describe a number of radical progressive ideologies, including critical race theory, social justice, and gender theory.
“If you want to boil down what wokeism is, it’s all based about sex. And that is homosexuality, it is transgender sex, same-sex marriages. It is couples living together outside of marriage, and of course, don’t want to be condemned. Wokeism is trying to accommodate sin and make people feel good about their sin,” the President of Samaritan’s Purse, Rev. Franklin Graham, told The Epoch Times.
“What is so important for everybody to understand is the doctrinal position of the church that they’re attending,” Rev. Graham said. “And for me, I want to attend a church that believes the Bible to be the word of God—not just contains the word of God—but believes from cover to cover that the Bible is holy and it’s inspired by God and that every word of the Bible is true.”
The Bible clearly says homosexuality is a sin, Rev. Graham says, and transgenderism is a lie; it doesn’t exist.
“This whole notion that we are male, female, and transgender is just not true,” Rev. Graham said. “It is the church trying to appease people who want to live in sin—adopting sin as to be the norm—and the Bible says we should resist sin. We should repent from sin and turn from our sins. As Christians sin, we should not be happy about it, and not boasting about it, and not flaunting it. We should be repentant.”
By Beth Brelje
