Good Faith Debates – Woke Church

The following video is part of a helpful series on topics facing Christians in American life today. We will be posting one each week and hope they will stimulate godly consideration of these matters from a Biblical perspective as well as model for us how sincere believers can disagree over important topics with grace toward each other.


The “woke” debates have fractured the church like little else in recent years. On one side are Christians who believe Scripture demands the church lead the way in addressing topics like racism, injustice, gender inequality, poverty, and climate change. On the other are Christians who accuse the “woke” gospel of just being a new generation of the “social” gospel, which in previous iterations often meant gradual theological compromise. What are we talking about when we use the word “woke”? And which should be the bigger concern for the church today: caring too little about activism on the social issues of the day, or caring too much about the wrong issues?

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