May 16, 2012
Politically Correct
Sometimes when we teach, lead or preach we inadvertently try to please
our audience and we become politically correct. Recently a preacher presented
some good, well founded thoughts, but then he lost me when he said, “I hope I didn’t offend anyone…” The
conversation in my head began, ‘Why are
you apologizing? You just spoke a message of truth from the Word of God’. People
in the world often look for ways to be offended by the truth of God’s Word, but
as believers we should never be offended when the truth is presented. James
says, “He chose to give us birth through
the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.”
(James 1:18 NIV)
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Gail;
-----We think political correctness is about being non-offensive. It is actually one of Satan’s more evil tricks. Two-thousand years ago, John said the spirit of the antichrist was in the world already. Revelation reveals that the beast will rise up out of the sea. Political correctness is the psychological process of grooming hearts and minds for his final big trick. Most people may think it is about using appropriate terminology, but few understand that it is really about taking advantage of the same social psychological processes God created in man for the propagation of godliness, then perverting it to the propagation of evil.
-----Until forty-five years ago, a process similar to political correctness was at work in our society. It did not make people go to church or know the Lord. But it generated a slight peer pressure towards such. What is really interesting about that “political correctness” and today’s political correctness is that the behavioral pressure of each comes from the general population itself. (And by “behavioral” I mean mental and emotional activity as well as actions and communications.) People of influence demonstrate desired actions and expressions. The groupies first reflect them, then the stoolies, then, by the conformist nature of the human soul, the general population. And although most of the general population will not entirely, or may not even predominantly accept the propriety of the propagated behavior, they will yet reflect it, believing everyone else does. They just do not want to be found out as being different.
-----Of course that reason for knowing the Lord and going to church was not good. But I assure you, it was darn well better than what we’re strapped with today. I remember public service announcements about going to your place of worship as a family. I remember church settings and “men of the cloth” portrayed in sit-coms and TV series as a part of normal life. I remember the honored attitudes were those of virtue, humility, and mutual benefit. Now, don’t get me wrong about today. It isn’t all bad. My favorite public service message is the one where some shaggy haired, white-cracker kid dressed in black grabs a purse left on a bench by a black lady who just boarded a bus. He runs into the ally and emerges on the other side of the block to return the purse to the lady who is just getting off the bus there. He gets a donut from the cops. Cool! But for decades the purveyors of everything unbiblical have used sit-coms, TV series, movies, music, etc., etc. to project a new norm of indecency and ungodliness. Church and preacher today are portrayed as a public blight. The honored attitudes are now to celebrate homosexuality, elevate the self, and get all you can from life. The groupies pass this off to the stoolies who slop the general public with the thought that everyone likes it. Thank God there are a few folks to whom the smell of this swill overpowers their human tendency to imitate fools scrambling to stick their faces in it first. Political correctness is about maintaining a mentality of following men instead of the Word until the beast has risen.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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