All churches are not created equal. Many may look the same, but the doctrines and theology are vastly different. Some modern-day churches have adopted a woke worldview, and it has led church congregations to split away from the churches they have served and supported for generations.
In America, there are hundreds of denominations. One of the fastest-growing and the most dangerous is the Woke orthodoxy.
There was an eye-opening piece in The Epoch Times recently. It talks about a social media site, “Woke Preacher Clips.” It includes various sermons of preachers telling children that there are more than two genders. One church even prays to a nonbinary God and recites the “Sparkle Creed.”
The Rev. Franklin Graham described it perfectly. “If you want to boil down what Wokeism is, it’s all based on sex. And that is homosexuality, it is transgender sex, same-sex marriages. It is couples living together outside of marriage and not wanting to be condemned. Wokeism is trying to accommodate sin and make people feel good about their sin.”
Many churches today support abortion on demand, flying rainbow flags and celebrating LGBTQ by allowing dressing in drag in the pulpit. They preach about social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion, gender transition, liberal politics, climate change, etc. This is the substitute for teaching the Bible doctrines, sin, salvation, the Virgin birth, death and resurrection of Christ, and God’s plan for mankind. (I just remembered a CNN host recently apologized for using that word. I see no need to apologize.)
Christians who have a weak view of Scripture are more inclined to be deceived by the theology of Wokeism. These Christians are more likely to believe that Biblical writers did not understand modern culture, and therefore, Bible truths may not apply in all settings. Those Christians who believe the Bible to be the Word of God and meant to be taken seriously are less likely to blinded by the Woke culture.
Wokeness teaches that we are not responsible for our own actions. We are born into two categories: the oppressed or the privileged (oppressor). God teaches us differently. We are all created equal and each of us is responsible for our own sin. Woke is ever changing. What is Woke this year will not be Woke in the future. Our faith must focus on what does not change. God’s word never changes.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed a dream that someday we would not be judged by the color of our skin but by the content of our character. Woke teaches we should all be judged by the color of our skin, race and assumed privilege.
I have written before about the evils of communism. The book, “How the Specter of Communism is Ruling our World,” addresses this.
“Communism teaches people to oppose belief in God and to cast out the divine. It simultaneously launches attacks of religion from the outside while manipulating people to corrupt religion from the inside. Religions have been politicized, commercialized and turned into entertainment. Numerous morally corrupt clergymen put forward fallacious interpretations of religious texts, misleading their followers and going so far as to commit adultery with their lay members, or even pedophilia.”
Graham stresses that every word of the Bible is true. He said, “The Bible clearly says that homosexuality is a sin and transgenderism is a lie. It doesn’t exist. This whole notion that we are male, female and transgender is just not true. It is the church trying to appease people who want to live in sin, adopting sin as normal, and the Bible says we should resist sin, we should not be happy about it, and not boasting about it, and not flaunting it. We should be repentant.”
Woke teaches us not to judge others. Jesus commands us to judge wisely and righteously. When we witness wrongdoing and evil, we are commanded to condemn such actions.
Author’s note: My word processor is obviously Woke. I was offered to correct mankind by changing it to humankind or humanity and to change homosexuality to same-gender attraction or same-gender relationships.
Joyce Krawiec represented Forsyth County and the 31st District in the North Carolina Senate from 2014 to 2024. She lives in Kernersville.
