There’s a lot wrong in this video …

There are many biblically incorrect statements in the video below. There are also some biblically correct statements. Take four minutes and watch it …

I’m not going to make this post about the right and wrong points made in the video. I will speak to the context of the video with a larger view.

I think this video captures much of what is broken about the church today. We have dummied down biblical truth to rhymes and platitudes. The average Christian — and too many church leaders — don’t have a biblical theology or even a biblical worldview, are ignorant of biblical doctrine, routinely fail to differentiate biblical truth from platitudes printed on a calendar, are happy to simply be spiritual hipsters, have embraced culture, and kissed corporate concepts of leadership.

Yes, there’s a lot wrong with religion, but scripture actually says Jesus did not come to destroy religion. Yes, grace should permeate Christian churches, but so should obedience.

And yes, there’s a lot wrong in the church. But the church is still the bride of Christ; it is still the family of God. It is Christ’s church and not ours.

Maybe if we extract all the culture we’ve loaded into it, got serious about being followers rather than worshiping leadership, and actually opened our Bibles and applied its truth without adding to or taking away from it, we could be the church God wants us to be.

Like the church in the New Testament.

I’ve pursued that for more than a couple decades, and will continue to do so.

How about you?

Scotty