So, let’s cancel someone.

We live in a time of cancel culture, where people can be punished or at least ignored, if they have an unpopular opinion. The opinion might even be popular, with some people, but some social activists might object, and some activist opinions have majority power because they seem so right and correct to some groups.

Majority power is not always based on power. For example, where I live, electric cars seem to be disappearing, but I won’t say that too loud. There are some strong arguments about climate change and the future of the human race, and I don’t want to be caught in that whirlpool.

Notice, I didn’t say what I think about those issues, I just don’t want to be caught up in a fierce debate. Many people that I know keep their heads down when radical social debates are swirling around them.

Yes, you can judge me, but I don’t have something constructive to say about every issue, and I’m not the only one.

If you are interested, here are some arguments:

• Meet the Woke Young People Trying to Make Christianity Cool Again 

Do we need to fix Christianity?

Is religion boring and do we need to make it cool again? That’s a woke whirlpool of an argument! 

If this is true, the answer about Jesus is “No!”:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. The Word was with God in the beginning. All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it. (John 1: 1 to 5)

The light of the world doesn’t need updating or replacement in our dark circumstances. Organized activities that have lost their connection to the source do need repairs. Maybe the woke activists have something to tell us.

Are good people being excluded?

One woke argument is that people with diverse lifestyles should not be excluded. I will stay away from naming those diverse lifestyles, but we know what they are.

In the Bible, we are all excluded, or included. There is no group of good people and other bad people who must be kept out, unless they change.

We all need to change.

There is a simple answer to that woke argument; we all need to change. No one is exempted from that:

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53: 4 to 6)

A new life includes giving up the old life, and that is the rule for everyone, including the people who imagine that they are already good enough.

That is a difficult concept for many people. We have a question to answer: What is wrong with believing something that changes the way we act?

Do people need to change?

Yes, some do. The push for change implies that human organizations, like Christian churches, are basically wrong. We only bring reform to groups that have gone wrong, and our reform shows that we know the best way.

We are told, the second best way is to love our neighbors as our self. That’s second best idea. The first and greatest command is to love God:

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22: 35 to 39)

The second love only happens after the first love, and because of it.

Any reform of Christianity must stay with that order, or the reform is something else. Making an improvement can actually mean changing something to make it work for us. A reform might be a takeover, and not an improvement and it might be dishonest.

There is no truth for real Christians without putting God first. Putting our favourite other ideas first is an imported foreign idea.

In our modern times, with woke ideas being pushed forward, we need to know who we are, and where the new ideas fit with that reality.

This is a lesson worth learning. We should not abandon the truth that we know and replace that with emotionally appealing new ideas.