Church Response to Wokeness // Lewis on Communion // "At the First Puff of Wind"

Kevin DeYoung lays out the church's responses to woke-ness.

This article assumes or argues several important things at once:

1. People in the middle aren't just squishy and uncertain, but thoughtful.

2. People in the middle have different perspectives.

3. There IS a middle, in a news world that often only shows us the extremes.

4. People with strong opinions are not automatically extremists and crazy.

5. When she becomes a minority in the culture (which we just did, like 30 minutes ago), the church is uniquely tempted to divide in how we respond.

The point isn't to pigeonhole others, as much as to understand our own impulses, so we can be as self-critical as needed.

C.S. Lewis, on Communion: "The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand."  (The Joyful Christian, pg 82.)

Presbyterians especially are prone to read the command to discern the body as, "Understand fully all that's going on, here, and what the elements actually are."

Mortification of Spin has an excellent take on Max Lucado's rather unhelpful response to being criticized for his biblical position on marriage.