We act as though our strident and shrill words can save our world, when we are not even able to save ourselves. We do not actually pray for our enemies, but contend with them, mimicking their own attitudes.
We forget the power of God in the cross and resurrection of Christ to transform lives, and act as though raising our voice or bolding our type is mighty to accomplish righteousness. We pretend as though we have become strong when our strength is in realizing our weakness and calling upon God.
Our hope is in a peaceful society when it should be in Christ’s eternal Kingdom. We are embarrassed to preach the gospel as Christ and his followers did in those dark days, but argue for societal good without the changed hearts that would sustain it.
It is not that Christ’s kingdom fails to encounter the world, but that God’s plan for overcoming the world has never been to employ the world’s strategies