Who keeps funding these ads?
So you've got the Christian mom washing a young girl's feet at an abortion clinic while the "mean" Christians stand outside protesting against the murder of babies:
Then there's the suburban housewife washing the feet of a Muslim woman while her concerned husband (probably a Trump voter) sits back and watches:
A suburban mom is also shown washing the feet of an illegal alien on her way to Chicago:
And the Catholic priest washing the feet of a gay black man on the beach:
The whole campaign is supposedly about this:
Hate? Jesus did actually teach about hate, and the people behind this ad are actually the ones peddling the evil kind, but before I explain, a few observations:
It isn't countercultural to shame Christians by implying they are the hateful, bigoted ones who need to "do better." The people with the power in nearly every institution across the Western world are those pushing for less Christianity, less "whiteness," less "heteronormativity," etc.
What would speak truth to power is exactly what the gentlemen above suggested: Run ads showing leftists washing the feet of the "alt-right" (AKA normal Americans from 10 years ago).
But this organization isn't interested in that. Heck, they don't even seem that interested in Christ.
Jesus said He is the only way to God and heaven. This means every other path does not lead to heaven. This is the basic claim of Christianity. His final instruction to his followers was to disciple the nations (not "disciple random individuals who will form loose associations so they don't get labeled Christian nationalists").
The reason for this is that the Bible teaches that all of us, myself most definitely included, are sinful. We aren't "basically good." We mess up. We hurt others. We do things we don't want to do. There are dark parts of your heart - parts you would never admit to another living soul - and that monstrous nature lives in every single one of us.
God is holy. "He alone is immortal and dwells in unapproachable light." He can not coexist with evil, like water does not mix with oil. All those good deeds you do to make yourself feel good enough for heaven? Like dirty rags. You cannot attain perfection on your own. And how could you?
You and I are condemned by just the thoughts we have had since we woke up this morning!
Because God is holy and good, He is just and He must judge. He will not let evil exist. Punishment and separation must come.
This is the real "He Gets Us." 👇
But the good news of the Bible is not that God enjoys damning sinners to hell. That was Satan's ploy - to force God to condemn the creature He lovingly made in His own image. No, instead, God made a sacrifice, trading blood for blood, "not wanting anyone to perish." He skinned two animals to make clothes for Adam and Eve. He provided a ram for Abraham so Abraham's son could live. He had the Hebrews paint blood over their doorposts so the angel of death would pass over them in Egypt. He created a system where sins would symbolically be placed on animals so the weight of sin would weigh on people's hearts and minds.
And then He died for us to pay our debt.
This is where the "He Gets Us" ads are hateful. They make sinners comfortable in their sin for the sake of Nicenessâ„¢.
Christ said that you must hate your family in comparison to Him (Luke 14:26-33). Christ said He "did not come to bring peace, but a sword," angrily dividing family members where He was concerned (Matthew 10:34-36). You must count the cost. You must understand that you are not your own, but sold to Christ (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
And you must HATE sin.
The "He Gets Us" campaign shows none of this. It preaches "love" without the cost it took to demonstrate that love. It shames the Church, the Bride of Christ, while offering no call to repentance for a world damned to hell. That gay black man? That girl who had the abortion? The Muslim family? They are all doomed for eternity apart from Jesus, but the "He Gets Us" people are too busy shaming Christians to tell them.
They must really hate them.
Jesus did wash His disciples' feet. He was showing them the humiliation God went to in order to save the lost. The God who made billions of galaxies could became a human and humiliated himself by dying as a nobody in the middle of nowhere.
The disciples expected Jesus to be the Warrior King who would overthrow Caesar and make Israel mighty again. They did not understand the life of suffering He was calling them to.
So how do we copy His example of washing feet? What would cause us humiliation and suffering?
- How about praying outside an abortion clinic and getting 10 years in jail after the US Department of Justice drags you into court?
- How about refusing to give your endorsement to anything that stains the sacred institution of marriage by not baking a cake for the "wedding" of two men?
- How about singing hymns in public even when authorities in places like England now say that such things can only be uttered inside churches?
- How about refusing to call your daughter a boy and fighting against the wicked state (like Montana!) that takes her away for refusing to inject her with poison and mutilate her body?
- How about standing up against racial Marxism that burns down cities and venerates criminals in the name of "social" justice?
- How about refusing to acknowledge the lies of powerful people who tried to use a virus to take power?
- What about advocating to make your nation look more like God's by, say, banning porn, knowing that Christ is coming with a robe dipped in blood to judge the nations?
- What about having secure borders with good immigration policies so we can help the poor, the widow, the fatherless, and the foreigner without bankrupting our social services and subjecting our neighbors and children to rapists, traffickers, murderers, and drug cartels?
