A Profoundly Bad Critique Of The Church
Worship, Rock Culture, And The Bible
I saw this video today from an account that seems hell-bent on misunderstanding the mission and priority of the Church. I love following this account because it provides me with endless amounts of critique.
The dude that runs this account is obviously striking a chord in a part of the Evangelical community that has a bjone to pjick (I like pronouncing the axiom as if I’m an old Norwegian fisherman chewing Copenhagen in water-resistant overalls) with just about everything that the American Church does.
Most of these critiques are skin deep—they don’t offer much in the way of substantial philosophical or theological pushback. And worse—there is no path forward that is offered—only platitudes and modern philosophy that sounds good.
I’m the kind of guy who tears an ACL sprinting to the comments section of just about every video—no exceptions. The comments are where the common man works out his feelings in public. It’s free online catharsis, and you and I get front-row seats to watch people stumble through their budding emotional consciousness and hit the threshold where their “thoughts” start pretending to be valid contributions.
Words are how we organize our thoughts. We all do it in real time—I’m doing it right now. Some of us do it in books or journals. Others do it in the comment section under a TikTok about deconstruction.
In the video I’ll link below, I stumbled across some gem comments. The dude who runs the account would reply in the most patronizing way. He told a Black pastor that worship needed more diversity. It took everything in me to not reply, “Totally agree—how much more Pakistani poetic pentameter is too much? Also, Aboriginal instrumentation? Hello? Like where is it? #infuriating. Can you please outline a metric we can all use to determine whether or not we are diverse enough in our worship so that the offering is acceptable to God?”
LOL.
Here is the video below and my response:
