Seeking Truth in Today's Troubled World

There is a grievous danger in the modern practice of chaining eternal truth to the wagon of cultural fashion, and nowhere is that danger more evident than in the proclamations of those who clothe political ideology in the language of Christian virtue. Ms. Staci Abrams, former candidate for Governor in the great state of Georgia, in her attempt to harmonize Christianity with progressive social dogma, has not elevated the gospel; she has gutted it of its power.

Let us be clear: Christianity is not a mirror of human sentiment but the message of divine rescue. It does not exist to affirm the world in its rebellion but to call it to repentance and redemption. The Lord Jesus did not suffer crucifixion to become the patron of political correctness. He came to save sinners, which, by the way, includes every last one of us. His mercy is glorious precisely because it calls us out of darkness, not because it affirms us while we dwell in it.

When Ms. Abrams speaks of her faith as “first and foremost,” she does not appear to mean the faith of the apostles, who laid down their lives rather than accommodate the world. Instead, she parades a tame, housebroken gospel that affirms the very chains Christ came to break. It is not love to baptize sin under the banner of compassion. It is not righteous to twist Scripture until it affirms what it came to condemn. One may well help the stranger and the dispossessed. Indeed, one must. But to do so without confronting the greater estrangement between mankind and its Maker is to feed a man’s hunger while he walks toward a cliff.

Ms. Abrams rebukes the idea that Christians could speak against the sins of the LGBTQ lifestyle or the confusion of gender ideology. She paints such correction as venomous, as though it were hateful to say that men cannot become women or that sexual sin, of any kind, corrupts the soul. But the true venom lies not in the call to holiness, but in the whisper that says, “You may do as you please, and God will applaud you for it.”

The call to repentance is not hate speech. It is the cry of a lifeguard to the drowning. It is the embrace of a loving Father who sees the prodigal wallowing in the pigsty and bids him come home. Not to set up a more comfortable sty, but to wash, to clothe, and to restore.

Ms. Abrams also laments the dismantling of DEI initiatives, confusing political mechanisms with moral righteousness. To assume that only one ideology serves the vulnerable is to cast the rest of the world as villains and to shut the mouth of reason. One must ask whether these “corrective actions” have truly served justice or merely created new hierarchies of grievance, pitting neighbor against neighbor under the guise of equity.

The Christian is commanded to love his neighbor, not to enshrine victimhood. He is to seek justice, yes, but not by partiality. True justice is blind to color and class. It exalts what is right, not what is convenient. And it is not strengthened by slogans, but by obedience to a God who judges the heart.

Lastly, it is perilous to speak as though one has a monopoly on Christ’s values while discarding His commands. “If you love me,” said Jesus, “you will keep my commandments.” Not reinterpret them. Not selectively apply them. Not subject them to opinion polls. Keep them.

So let us not be deceived. The gospel is not a progressive manifesto. It is the thunder of a holy God calling out to a fallen world with pierced hands and an empty tomb. If Ms. Abrams would truly lead in the name of Christ, let her first fall at His feet, confess not the sins of others, but her own, and rise again not with a cause, but with a cross.

For no one enters the Kingdom of God through affirmation. Only through repentance.

In Christ’s service, ~JFH