The Worst Take On Christian Socials This Week
And Why “Institutional Church” Is Not A Contradiction To Christ
So there’s this social media account picking up traction like a runaway golf cart, and the cheerleaders are exactly who you’d expect: the perpetually aggrieved, the ones who’ve got a laundry list of gripes with the Church—hypocrisy, bad vibes, whatever else they scribbled in their Moleskines after therapy. Predictable as a sitcom laugh track.
Sure, abuses happen—power-tripping pastors, leaders caught mid-tantrum with their halos askew—but the blanket autopsy of the Church these folks peddle? That’s what chafes me, like a polyester suit at a summer wedding.
Cue this clip (pasted below, dissected after): the content dude drops a truth bomb so fast it’s basically a mic-drop, and the audience just nods along, hypnotized—like it’s gospel, no questions asked.
Except anyone with half a brain—or, say, a dog-eared copy of Eusebius for Dummies—knows this take collapses faster than a house of cards in a windstorm.
It’s flimsy, folks.
And here’s the kicker: we don’t yank our Ecclesiology straight from Jesus’ Greatest Hits any more than we mine the Gospels for the fine print on, say, predestination. No, the risen Christ outsources the Church’s blueprints to Paul and Peter—ghostwriters with gravitas—while Luke’s over in Acts, playing gonzo journalist, scribbling field notes on the early Jesus freaks.
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Here’s the clip in all its ridiculousness, and my response:
