Why Are There Giants?
Evil giants wouldn't be so hard to slay except that we won't. Why?
We go to church on Sunday: We are comfortable in our self-assigned row in church. We are content with outsourcing our Christianity to the qualified and "called". The missionaries evangelize, the CPC worker saves the babies, the Pastor studies, and we pay them. We're busy experiencing our Christianity instead of working out our religion.
Our unsaved neighbor likes us so much: We've over-valued the world's perception of us and of Jesus. We are afraid of being perceived as judgmental or narrow-minded. We are afraid of Jesus coming across as too harsh. We've failed to demand justice to the point of accepting atrocities -- all for a good presentation.
We are Purists: We Christians have started to sum up our duty as: giving the gospel. We've disengaged with our culture under the intention to remain pure and unspotted. Instead we have failed to take a stand and rebuke evil and consciously teach the nations, and practically visit the afflicted. The majority has used pietism as a cop-out for engaging in warfare. We have surrendered ourselves out of responsibility to act like a Christian.
We're afraid of man: We buy into the dangerous thought that disobedience is rebellion. That God-given authority is unlimited. That passivity and conformity are spiritual. Agitation, reproof and judgement all become negative black words, and somehow love becomes an torpid blob of meaninglessness. We are so afraid to do something wrong, we do nothing. We fail to see our inaction condemns us. For inaction is a choice. Toleration of tyrants is an act of condoning tyrants. Living in fear is being a willing slave. And closing our ears to reason is willful ignorance.
There are giants because Christians refuse to defy them.
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