What a strange year 2020 has turned out to be. We could label 2020 many things, but the potential label that most concerns me would be:
2020—The Year of the Angry, Divisive Christian
Everywhere I turn—Twitter, Facebook, church blog posts, individual conversations—I read and hear Christians judging and condemning each other.
Turning Over Tables?
I often hear various supposed biblical “support” for these public condemnations. Things like:
“I’m being like Jesus, who turned over tables in the synagogue!” “I’m speaking the truth in love like Paul commanded us to do to one another!”
Here’s the thing, not every turning over of tables is motivated by Jesus-like love. Some of it is nothing more than sinful anger.
Not every speaking of truth is done in love or motivated by love. Some of it is nothing more than arrogant argumentative false judgment.
Speaking Truth in Love?
Reading Twitter tweets and Facebook posts by Christians in 2020 often sounds like vitriol , sinful anger, argumentative arrogance, combative judgmentalism, and self-righteousness hatred. Instead of speaking words that benefit and build up (Ephesians 4:29), we spew forth unwholesome words of bile, venom, sarcasm, contempt, scorn, viciousness, maliciousness, bitterness, cruelty, and hatred. And
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