Jacob Bluebaugh retweetet
Let’s be honest: the @ZacharyGarris trial, where the left gets coddled and a good, traditional, godly man gets picked apart and persecuted is just one of THOUSANDS of evidences that actual Christians are not safe in our current American ecclesiastical environment.
Love the church, with all your heart under Christ, but recognize that it is deeply divided, often cruel, full of unbelief, and unstable emotionally—carnal. Love rejoices in truth.
One either finds himself in these uniparty, longhouse, slow-fussy-liberal, sectarian struggle session type denominations or in even smaller, more highly chaotic personality cult situations. That fracturing began in the 1800s and accelerated during the 1900s. Many good men and good local churches exist in these groups, but in universal experience they are only one assault, one new fad, or one new scandal from destruction—people disposed of, families torn apart, churches split, and Jesus’ name blasphemed.
“Conservative” institutions are few and weak, reactive and brittle, fragile yet mouthy, conserving little, usually just temporarily rallying around rhetorical LARPing, cosplayers in the slow decline of the West. There is currently no real forward motion at any scale.
Let’s just stop being children and be honest.
The sheep are scattered and persecuted among fractured and fracturing communions. Independency of various forms is now the norm, even in denominations. Strong men show up here and there and rally irrational cults or local renewals around them. But there is no coherent national church. No healthy national movement. No revival. No healthy institutions. It really is that bad.
We will have to live by faith not sight, keep ourselves in the love God, and set our hope in His promises. The outward supports are a broken reed to lean on.
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