November 9, 2015

• Between Kayfabe and Condemnation

  There's been a recent controversy about what some Christians said or thought or did. It doesn't matter what it is; the story will change every week. Regardless, here I am, as a Christian, and I have feelings that are hard to easily classify...

  See, on the one hand, no one wants to go back to Kayfabe. It's a term that I first heard when applied to wrestling. You have to pretend that all the holds and tosses are real, that the entire show is real at all times. I don't want to be the type of Christian who pretends that all other Christians are right all the time. We know it's not true. We know Christians can be wicked, scheming, hypocritical monsters. So yes, I understand a certain reluctance to defend Christian oddballs.

  But I am frustrated by the other response. Christians condemning Christians to score points with their friends is no better. One day it will be your belief that is controversial. We as Christians are Christians because we believe in following the voice of God where it may lead us. Just because I am not the man on the soapbox, calling out in the town square today, doesn't mean I may not be that man tomorrow. It is prideful of me to judge my brother, to claim he must also not give to the needy, or he is a busybody. How can I do this?

  I think unfortunately, only silence can sometimes be the right response.

  • 11:42 pm
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