With everything that has been going on within the last 2 years (and will continue), I am going to put this here:
Soon the activists, progressive movements, and humanitarian groups in the United States will turn on Christians en mass. It will mostly be because of false/fake Christians whom they use as the face of Christianity. We already see this with Trump and Republican "Christians." We saw this with Joel Osteen after Hurricane Harvey. Neither of them are anywhere close to living out the faith that Christ envisioned us to embody, but because they are now the face of Christianity in America, all Christians are going to suffer. Those who will suffer most are Christians who are truly filly with love and who wish for social justice in America and partner with the movements that will one day not discriminate and persecute all Christians. They are the ones who will be caught up in between lukewarm/fake Christians whom they've tried to distance themselves from, and the social justice movements they long to be a part of. I pray that they will not lose hope in Christ (as they will lose hope in humanity) when that day comes.
I guess I will use the words of Peter, Paul, and John...come quickly Jesus.
Edit: After meditating on this, I realize that God may be using this as an opportunity to unify the American Church, whether or not we want to be unified. The church will be smaller, but it will become more real, and we will start to rely on one another instead of being individualistic or combative, fighting against one another along lesser ideological points. I understand the history of the American Church, how there was a growth in fundamentalism, legalism, escapism, and fatalism. I understand that my generation is one that sees all of those things, along with the fakeness of cultural Christianity, and pushes back against it, and in many ways over-swinging to the other extreme of the spectrum to progressivism, liberalism, and compromising Scripture for culture. Yet Jesus has time and time again (and I guess Paul and others too...though my generation seems to be more Red Letter than anything) warn us that the world will hate us (because of Him). We saw this with the Woman's March, how Christian woman groups who wanted to stand for gender equality and stand for social justice were forbidden to march because they were Pro-life. We will continue to see more of this, whether we like it or not, and unfortunately for my generation, the world (the politicians, the rich, the activists, the scientists, and the humanists) will shove us back to our roots, and that will be at the foot of the Cross where the Jews crucified their own blood-related Savior. I just hope there won't be too great a hurt and distrust within my generation (and those after me) towards all people by then.
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