Cancelled?
Cancel culture is an ugly trend. It is a practice where a person or group can be systematically “canceled” because of something they did or said, or even because they have a different point of view.
Everyone should be held accountable and should accept responsibility for their actions. But even the people who are ‘canceled’ deserve an opportunity at redemption. When we wish for things like someone to be fired from their job, expelled from college, or ostracized by society, we are essentially killing their future. But even convicted criminals are offered opportunities.
Have you engaged in this practice? I know that I have done it as well, even if unintentionally. Even people and institutions identified as “Christian” have engaged in this awful practice.
But that is not Jesus’s way. Jesus chose imperfect people to be his apostles. He received people who couldn’t control their temperament like Peter, doubters like Thomas, people who were rejected by society like Matthew and Zacchaeus, ambitious people like John and James, and even a thief like Judas. Jesus came to seek and save the lost: those whom society deemed undeserving. He came to un-cancel those who God legally had the right to cancel because of their sin. And I don’t mean only those I just mentioned: I mean all of us.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 6:23
We have the right to be offended and to raise our voices against those who do injustice. So does God. But instead of cancelling us, God decided to cancel our sins and redeem us by faith in Jesus’s sacrifice. If you really want to make a difference, think about whose example you will follow.
If we are going to cancel anything, let’s cancel sin.
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