The Church of Distraction
An Indictment of Christianity
The image before us is not a gentle nudge; it’s a sledgehammer to the stained-glass facade of contemporary Christendom. "STOP ARGUING ABOUT THE RAPTURE, TRANSLATIONS, THE TRINITY, SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH AND GO TELL SOMEBODY ABOUT JESUS"—is a damning indictment of a faith that has lost its way. It highlights a grotesque reality where the Great Commission has been traded for the Great Debate.
Modern Christianity, particularly in its Western evangelical form, is suffocating under the weight of its own theological navel-gazing. We live in an era where Christians are more likely to be known for what they are against than what they are for, and where internal squabbles are fought with more fervor than the battle for souls. The list of distractions in the image is a pathetic roll call of our collective failure.
We fight over the timing of an end-times event, obsessing over charts and timelines while the world burns around us. We form tribes around preferred Bible translations, as if the King James Version were dictated by God himself and every other rendition is a tool of the devil. We debate the mechanics of the Trinity and the validity of spiritual gifts with the intellectual arrogance of medieval scholastics, forgetting the simplicity, and purity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And, in a truly bizarre turn, a vocal minority has even resurrected the pre-scientific debate about the shape of the earth, making a mockery of faith in the eyes of a skeptical world.
These are not harmless intellectual exercises. They are a cancer. They breed division, foster spiritual pride, and, most devastatingly, they paralyze the Church. While Christians are busy arguing about whether the rapture is pre-trib, mid-trib, or post-trib, their neighbors are dying without hope. While they split hairs over Greek verb tenses, the message of God’s love is being drowned out by the cacophony of their self-righteous bickering. In doing so, we have opened the invitation for the world to “come see” the Christians endlessly debating each other.
The call to "go tell somebody about Jesus" is not a complex theological proposition. It's a simple command. It's about sharing the hope, the grace, and the redemption found in Christ with a broken world. But how can we do that when we are so consumed by our own internal wars? How can we offer a message of unity and love when our own house is so divided and full of vitriol?
This image is a wake-up call. It’s a plea to stop majoring on the minors. It's a demand that we tear down the idols of theological tribalism and refocus our energy on the only thing that truly matters. The world doesn't need another debate about the Nephilim or the correct interpretation of tongues. It needs to hear about Jesus. It's time for the Church to stop arguing and start acting like the body of Christ. It's time to shut up and go tell somebody about Jesus.
