Cancel Culture vs. Kingdom Culture
I read a blog that a friend of mine posted recently on “cancel culture.” I really hadn’t thought that much about what it really is even though I hear the term frequently. I decided to take a deeper dive.
The “cancel culture” movement that exists in our society today plays right into the hands of the Enemy. In fact, it is most likely something that he created to add to the turmoil that already exists. If you look at it objectively, you will see that the ideology behind “cancel culture” is in opposition to the “Kingdom culture” that we are taught through God’s Word.
Here are three key areas where they differ:
First, Satan wants nothing more than for each of us to act as our own individual gods based on our own societal moral code. As such, there is no absolute standard of right and wrong. It becomes only what a particular society at a particular point in time says it is.
In Kingdom culture, God’s Word is the absolute standard that doesn’t exist in cancel culture and doesn’t change with any cultural movement. We can trust God’s Word to be our moral guide rather than leaning on society’s flawed understanding of morality.
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Secondly, Satan wants to divide people. Division brings discord, distrust and all sorts of other issues. It’s exactly the type of society that he wants to create.
Kingdom culture is very clear on the issue that Jesus wants us to seek peace with others. We are to love our neighbors as ourselves and to make every effort to live in peace with everyone.
Hebrews 12:14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
Thirdly, Cancel culture promotes vengeance and unforgiveness toward those who have been deemed to stumble. Christ warns those who refuse to forgive will be held accountable for their unforgiveness.
Kingdom culture instructs us to offer grace, compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and restitution .and to help restore the fallen person. In helping people be reconciled with God and with each other, we’re to focus on restoring the sinner, not avenging the sin.
Matthew 6:14-15 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Ephesians 4:32 Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
I love cancel culture. Not the one that is referred to in society today but the opposite kind that exists in Christianity. Societal “Cancel culture” hangs on to the sin and cancels the person; Kingdom culture hangs on to the person and cancels the sin. Amen to that!
Stay hungry,
Big E
Matt. 5:6