I don’t look to President Nixon for advice often, but he was wise to say, “We do not negotiate with terrorists.”
You can’t come to the table and find a reasonable solution with those bent on destruction.
As Alfred wisely told Batman about the Joker, “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
Somewhere along the journey Christian’s downplayed the significance of depravity, quit talking about sin as rebellion, and stopped declaring the need for conversion.
Today many Christians engage in evangelism that boils down to some version of negotiating with terrorists.
In the face of hostile spiritual forces and demonic ideologies, we need to drop the apologies and hand-wringing.
Addressing the sins of past Christians and resolving misunderstandings of Scripture have their place in personal conversations.
But the starting point and general posture of the Church should be a bold and joyful declaration that Jesus is in charge and coming again– all men can be right with God by repenting of their rebellion and bowing to Jesus.
We need to quit begging people to see the reasonableness of the True King and return to declaring the authority and reality of the resurrected Lord Jesus.
Hamas isn’t concerned about the hostages.
Neither is Darwin or Nietzsche… and neither are deconstructionists or LGBTQ-theologians.
They are bent on throwing off the authority of God’s Word and of God’s Anointed King Jesus.
The bankrupt worldviews that Christians have been bartering with are starting to take major losses as rank perversity and exploitation are becoming mainstream.
Showing the reasonableness of the Lost worldview is like trying to split winnings with a degenerate gambler. You can’t divide 0.
What if the Bible was always smarter than you and everyone else? (psst it was and is.)
Christian, you don’t have to be sophisticated in the world’s eyes.
The world is too smart for their own good.
Anyone too sophisticated to trust the Bible is quite literally a damned fool.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools Romans 1:22
The way to help them is calling them to humility before the Lord. Bowing before Jesus is the path of wisdom.
In the end, no one is outsmarting God. David told us how this plays out– humility before God is the path to life.
Being smarter than God leads to being outsmarted by God.
26 “To the faithful you show yourself faithful,
to the blameless you show yourself blameless,
27 to the pure you show yourself pure,
but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.
28 You save the humble,
but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.
2 Samuel 22:26–28
Let’s get back to joyful declaration. You don’t have to start conversations assuming the leading evolutionary biologist or clinical psychologist is a rival authority to God.
In fact, you should start by embracing the only places they get it right are places they agree with God.
Lead by sharing God’s Word as True wisdom. Conversations that want to submit to God’s Word lead to wisdom and life. Debates that stand over God’s Word will fall empty.
You don’t have to know more than Darwin or Freud, just share what their Creator and Judge has said.
In time, everyone will see Who was right.