Plague Journal (60): in the world and of it too

I won't be the first to say this, but it does seem we're moving from the "Information Age" to the "Disinformation Age." Scroll down your Facebook slip n' slide (it's ridiculous to call it a "wall") for scads of evidence.

Or maybe we're just poorly educated. Or we've forgotten whatever it is we learned in high school about logic, careful fact-checking, etc. Or we set it aside as inconvenient. 

"Professing to be wise, they became fools," is a phenomenon we see around us all the time on social media. It may well be, in fact, the story of American Christianity in our time. [Romans 1:22]

Or, professing to be "in the world but not of it," we have nevertheless become the dupes of worldly princes. The true measure of our status viz the world is always in flux, of course, but there can be no doubt that we are generally far more "of the world" than we would ever like to admit. There are many ways this can happen, but one way "the world" can win our primary allegiance away from Jesus is via politics. Suddenly the will for our side to win the next election, or to "own" the opposition, supersedes our commission to go and makes disciples, and that commission is trampled in the dust as we rush to score political points. We have abandoned our first love. [Matthew 28:19, Revelations 2:4]

Believing more in the world ways than in our Lord's way, we are ripe for a new Reformation, but blind to our need for it. All of us must once again, this day and every day, "choose whom we will serve." [Deuteronomy 30:19]