Worldly, godless constructs such as Critical Race Theory, the Social Justice Movement, neo-Marxism, and Intersectionality have captivated the minds of many rendering them fools as they worship the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever.
I highly recommend Voddie Baucham's book, "Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe," for a wonderfully understandable and detailed treatment of these current issues.
People around the world, saved and unsaved, are buying into these worldly, anti-intellectual constructs to varying degrees. Yes, sadly, all of the things I've mentioned thus far are infiltrating so-called "evangelical churches" to one degree or another.
I see three primary groups of people who have been captivated by the present zeitgeists—these spirits of the age: the doubting (those who may simply be ignorant and unable to discern truth from error), the insistent (those seemingly willfully hurling themselves headlong into the flames of falsehood and who need to be snatched from them), and the immovable (those wholly given over to the zeitgeists and committed to propagating false teachings and worldviews, as well as demanding submission to them).
Jude's New Testament letter written to unspecified Jewish Christians addresses these three categories of people—all of whom desperately need to hear the gospel and to receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
While Jude addresses unspecified false teachers/teachings that had already infiltrated the church, I see the text having a wider application to the many false teachings infiltrating the church today (i.e. LGBTQ, CRT, Social Justice, Intersectionality, |
