I had an interesting experience recently when one of the largest ministry organizations in the world called and asked me to do an online training session with about sixty members of their global leadership team. After my talk, one of the questions asked was about cancel culture and how they should prepare if the cancel crowd comes after them. In the process we discussed woke thinking and how cancel culture is a symptom of that woke thinking, and how it’s almost become a religion – but a religion without forgiveness, redemption, or the possibility of salvation. From a Biblical perspective, it’s the antithesis of what the Church stands for and teaches.
Woke Thinking Has Infiltrated the Church
It was a good discussion, but after the session, I got a call from one of top leaders who shared how offended many of the ministry’s leaders were after my talk. Apparently, many of their younger leaders felt being woke was exactly what Christians should be doing today – and worse, the global director of the ministry wasn’t even sure if that was a problem or not.
That experience taught me that wokeness has infiltrated church and ministry organizations at a higher level than many of us thought. Plus, the top leaders of many of these organizations don’t know enough to correct the erroneous theology.
As a result, we all need to look around and see exactly who our churches, ministries, and nonprofits are raising up, and what they believe about woke thinking. Without being too dramatic, the future of the church may depend on it.
This article on woke thinking originally appeared here, and is used by permission.
