While this will seem like a political post at the beginning, it’s not. I wish it was only a political post. Trust me and hang in there until the end. If you dare.
When I opened up my Twitter feed this morning, I did what I always do: I checked to see what’s trending. Usually, I skip past most of it because “trending” doesn’t always equate to “worth my time,” but one trend caught my eye.
Rose McGowan.
I didn’t recognize her name, but the headline with it grabbed my attention. She was trending because she recently supported Larry Elder in the California governor recall election.
Again, this isn’t political, and we are getting to the point. Patience, young grasshopper. Patience.
As I scrolled to read the various tweets that had caused this actor’s name to trend, I noticed how mean they were, and I couldn’t quite figure out what the big deal was. I mean, actors support political candidates all the time, and when a right-leaning person endorses a right-leaning politician, that should hardly make news, let alone cause a topic to trend.
And that’s when I noticed the issue: Rose McGowan isn’t a right-leaning person. Again, I’m not trying to pit left vs. right here, but I am trying to make sure you know which camp she’s been aligned with the most, and her activism aligns more with left issues than right. That’s important to note because that sets up the whole point of this post.
She was trending on Twitter because she was being devoured by her own people. The same people who have said wonderful things about her in the past were now dragging her through the mud on their way to throw her under the bus.
And that’s when the Spirit whispered it to me. The thing that made me write about something that I admittedly know very little about. The thing that made me stop thinking about Rose McGowan and made me start weeping over the Church.
“My people do this all the time,” the Spirit said. “Instead of having conversations to understand one another, they post comments to belittle one another, and it breaks my heart.”
Friends, let’s show the world something different that what I saw on Twitter this morning. Let’s this the world something better than a church that turns on herself when people disagree.
Let’s show the world a church who cares more about being kind than king right. A church that values the fight for unity more than the ease of agreement.
That’s when the world will see His power more than our positions. That’s what will point them to Jesus.
