Where does CRT/Social Justice/Woke-ism sit? It is in the world. It is of the world. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. It only tries to make everyone believe they are either a victim or an oppressor. It is an evil Marxist teaching from Satan.

For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Luke 14:28 (NASB) 

I really struggled with the title for this post. In fact as I began typing here I have changed it twice more. I wrote my first post about pragmatism in the visible church back in 2008 while doing battle almost daily against the Purpose Driven paradigm and the Emergent Church. That post was titled Pragmatism. However, two years earlier I wrote a 6 part series titled The Compromised Church. I reposted it in 2008. It dealt with the very same issues, but in much greater detail of course. Back then the battles we fought were geared more toward the havoc Post-Modernism was taking on the theological solidity of our churches. I was most certainly not fighting that battle alone. Ken Silva actually gave me marching orders, but I also did research on my own as well. Chris Rosebrough a was huge contributor as well. What I never got used to were the Ad Hominem attacks from those who just didn’t like us being precise presenting Theology exegetically from God’s Word and relying solely on it as the arbiter for what is truth and what is not. This created a dividing line that those with discernment could see very easily who was walking in the light compared to those who only pretended to be.

Something really odd happened around 2011-2012 though. It was as if the “emergents” just dropped out of sight. All through their ugly attacks on all things Biblical and Doctrinally correct they played dirty. They tried to take us offline. They tried to get our internet providers to block us. They tried to get us banned from conferences. You name it. They tried it. Then when Rob Bell wrote his book Love Wins and it revealed to everyone what a heretic he really was, it was as if it just got quiet. One other thing. All during that “war” those of us who were in the trenches were by-and-large Reformed in our theology. There were some who were not, but most of us were. Those in non-Reformed Churches seemed to look at us as troublemakers.

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