{"id":2742,"date":"2018-01-19T21:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T02:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2018-01-20T13:56:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:56:20","slug":"the-case-against-christian-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/the-case-against-christian-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against Christian Activism …"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to feel bad, as a Christian, that I never put a lot of emphasis on the whole “WWJD” question. I don’t think I ever had one of the bracelets. The whole thing seemed like a fad, and I wasn’t interested.<\/p>\n

Until now, I never thought about it in the negative: “WWJND” — “what would Jesus not do?” What things do we do that go so far beyond what Jesus said and did as to be at best tangential to the Gospel? In some respects, that question seems just as important.<\/p>\n

Consider this tidbit from Empires of Dirt<\/a><\/em> — a book I’m interested in reading:*<\/p>\n

The textbook case against Christian activism can be made in one word\u2014Prohibition\u2014the word that would have made the Lord Jesus at Cana into a moonshiner felon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We err both when we fail to do the things Jesus urged us to do — and still urges us to do — and when we do things he clearly would not. That seems true on the individual level, and just as much on the level of collective action in the church writ large.<\/p>\n

Lord, help us. Or, more to the point: Lord, help me.<\/p>\n

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