So many Christians see the way to “love our neighbor” is to support their behavior, regardless of whether it falls outside of Biblical norms. We recognize that everyone has a sin nature, both believers and non-believers alike, and so we “go along to get along,” engaging in the path of least resistance. As outlier behavior becomes more extreme, we stretch our moral guardrails further and further from Scripture.
Case in point is the battle currently going on before the Supreme Court, potentially allowing parents to opt out of LGBTQ books as required reading for their elementary school children (details). How did we reach a point where this material was allowed into the classroom of six-year olds in the first place? The answer is that we have looked the other way in order to “go along to get along.”
How did we ignore the deterioration in our public education to the point that we pay the highest per student rate of any developed nation, yet have the lowest test scores? Again, the answer is, we don’t want to cause waves and just hope things will all work out. Is this being a good steward of our resources as a nation?
How did we get so far off Biblical norms that transgender men are in women’s locker rooms and winning women’s sporting events? It is because the loud minority overwhelmed the submissive majority.
The list of Biblical apostasy goes on and on.
Christian Response
Is it time to pull our collective heads out of the sand and “love our neighbor” by offering Biblical morality in the face of a deteriorating cultural climate? If we are to “love the Lord with all our hearts, mind, and strength,” can we continue to look the other way as His commands are being undermined? Is there a way to love people of all walks of life and faith backgrounds yet still maintain our Biblical Christian worldview as a light, rather than hidden under a basket (Matthew 5:15), only to be displayed in Bible studies and Sunday morning church services?
What is the first, and then second, priority in Biblical love …?
Mark 12:30-31 – ‘And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
God desires that we, as Biblical Christians, stand for His commands while loving our neighbor. The intersection of those two objectives can be challenging, given our sin nature. However, ignoring God’s covenants is not the answer.
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