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Posted on 12/27/2025 5:36:04 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
American Christianity includes more than 200 denominations. One of the fastest growing is the orthodoxy of Woke. Woke Christianity is the single greatest threat to the modern church since the first century.
There are two ways to tell if your church or religious organization has gone woke. First, what’s missing? And second, what replaced what’s missing?
If sound biblical preaching about sin, salvation, Jesus’ virgin birth, and other teachings are absent, that’s not woke; it’s just weak. But if those essentials were replaced by Critical Race Theory (CRT), tolerance, and a watered-down social Gospel, a woke cancer is growing.
The church has adapted to the landscape of society for ages, in most cases, harmlessly. Stained glass sanctuaries gave way to coffee shops. Hymns became “worship” — change happens. Is social justice merely another minor adjustment, or is “progress” just a deception in disguise?
A Black Lives Matter logo or rainbow banner would be an obvious red flag (pun intended). If pastor Samuel is now Samantha, do not walk away, run! Most warning signs are less obvious. How can you discern if an organization is relevant versus woke?
What is woke in a church context? Webster defines woke as: “Aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially racial and social justice).” While it can be other things, woke is most often applied to race issues, so let’s focus there.
Woke ascribes to the unbiblical philosophy that only two groups exist in history: The oppressed and the oppressors. Wealthy, educated, successful people are oppressors; everyone else is oppressed. To question the sacred doctrine of CRT is to be racist.
Jesus ministered to everyone crossing racial, ethnic, and national lines. We should be aware of injustice and oppression. Justice for the weak and oppressed is urged in Scripture (Isa. 1:17; Micah 6:8). God is not an elitist. He shows partiality to no one (Gal. 2:6, Eph. 6:9) — few Christians would argue otherwise.
Christians lead the world in helping the poor, elderly, widows, and orphans (Psalm 68:5) as we should. In 2021, American Christians donated over $145 Billion to charities, making Christians by far the most loving, caring people in the world, but that’s insufficient for the woke.
Wokeness teaches that we are not responsible for our own lives. We’re born privileged or oppressed. The Bible says we are personally accountable for our sins (James 1:13-15). God created us all equal. Acts 17:26 says we are all created “of one blood.” The sin of racism requires repentance, like any other sin. Wokeness replaces repentance with reparations.
Here are four of many warning signs your organization is going woke.
Traditional biblical doctrines redefined or “reinterpreted”
God’s word is timeless and unchanging. It applied when Moses wrote Genesis, and it applies now. “Every good and perfect thing comes from God, the Father of lights who does not change” (James 1:17).
Moral standards mirror “norms” instead of Jesus
When did “norm” replace right? Norms change. Sin is sin. The Bible is the inspired word of God, and salvation comes by faith alone in Jesus alone (Acts 4:12). If a pastor cannot articulate a faith statement that agrees with those basics, you must leave. You owe it to God to honor His word, His promises, His authority, and His Son’s sacrifice at Calvary.
Personal experience over biblical truth
There is no “your truth;” there is only God’s truth. If a church emphasizes life experiences over biblical facts, they’re wrong. Get out. Life experiences shape our personality, but they can be incorrect. God and the Bible are not. Focus your faith on what cannot change: “I am the Lord. I change not!” (Malachi 3:6).
Don’t judge!
Sixty-one years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed a dream that all people would be judged by the contents of their hearts, not the color of their skin. Now, the woke crowd demands that we judge, segregate, and condemn based on skin, race, and (assumed) privilege.
Wokeness is wicked, insidious, shifty, and deceitful. What’s woke this week won’t be woke enough next. What’s the solution? Judgment, discernment, moral conviction, and courage.
Contrary to the woke world, Jesus commands us to judge. He says it clearly, using the exact opposite criteria from the woke tolerate anything mob:
“Stop judging outward appearances and start judging justly” (John 7:24). Yes — The Son of God tells people to wisely, righteously . . . judge.
The antidote for woke is a biblical worldview. The two cannot coexist. God offers people something much better than being “woke”; through His Word, a life of being “awake.”
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“Blow up your TV, throw away your paper, go to the country, build you a home. Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches, try and find Jesus on your own.” ~ John Prine
Woke is what the new Angel Studios animation of *David* is.
All the characters are Middle Eastern in appearance and coloring, except one.
Goliath is the only white guy in the whole movie, light skin and short, sandy colored hair.
It was so stinking obvious. I can’t believe that an organization that claims to be Christian would be so blatantly obvious about it.
I was thoroughly disgusted.
And no, it did not ruin a perfectly good movie. IMO, it was not that great to start with.
“American Christianity includes more than 200 denominations.”
Hello?
Bueller? Bueller?
If what you find yourself in, is a “denomination”...yes. Leave.
If instead what you’re in, is the Church, one, holy, universal, apostolic, then no.
Stay.
It’s not like we haven’t been warned.
That’s what Matthew 7:15-20 is all about.
My pastor regularly challenges the congregation to research his messages and ensure it aligns with the Bible and not just take what he’s saying as true and accurate.
The enemy will take full advantage of people that just sit in a church with drool running down their chin and believe everything they hear.
Personal experience mush always be interpreted or examined in light of Scriptural truth.
Biblical Truth mush never be subservient to personal experience.
Wait a minute. Catholics claim there are 40,000 denominations. Or are they up to 50,000 now?
“...animation of *David* is.
“All the characters are Middle Eastern in appearance and coloring, except one.”
That would be correct.
Yup
2Ti 2:15 - Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Act 17:11 - Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
Maranatha
We are called to be light in the darkness, not light in the light.
Sometimes, OY, that seems to be the only thing non-Catholics seem truly or reliably to be able to agree about:
That a certain group of people, somewhat large, headed by a man we are heard to call Papa, does not embody the One True Faith, is not the Church.
Are you really so sure about that?
This hits home. I’m looking for a Church that I feel comfortable at. Last Sunday I went to a Church near me and the place felt more like a business than a Church. The pastor read his sermon from a laptop. No Bible in hand. No “please turn your Bibles to the book of (fillintheblank) to the Church body”. Could mention other odd happenings there but I wont.
I’ve recently started taking an interest in the Ethiopian bible. Interesting stuff.
What would be correct?
If you are in my neck of the woods, then come to Crossroads Cowboy Church where the only Word taught is the Word.
If sound biblical preaching about sin, salvation, Jesus’ virgin birth, and other teachings are absent, that’s not woke; it’s just weak
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What good is a church that this describes? If these are absent dont wait, run to exit.
Sometimes, OY, that seems to be the only thing Catholics seem truly or reliably to be able to agree about: That a certain group of people, somewhat large, who do not follow man does not embody the One True Faith, is not the Church.
Catholics are very adept at broad brushing non-Catholics based on what they wish non-Catholics believe.
We keep correcting y'all's strawmen beliefs about non-Catholics, but Catholics haven't yet accepted it and keep repeating the lies.
The Lord works in strange ways. So does satan. God gave you the free will to decide. It ain’t that tough with any intelligence or morals. And it doesn’t require a village.
wy69
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