I mean, what happened to those who read the Bible and it means what it says? The discernment sites who call out false teachers, warn against those who partner with them, and believe Roman Catholicism is a heretical false religion?

I’m calling out websites like Protestia.

They are writing articles about Charlie Kirk’s bold faith as he went into hostile territory of liberal college campuses and defended his professed belief in Jesus.

The problem is who Kirk interviewed and shared a stage with. His recent praise of Roman Catholicism and the veneration (read: worship) of Mary.

He interviewed false teachers like Jentzen Franklin and Sean Feucht, among others. His church had a woman pastor and claims to be an affiliate (or something like that) the Azusa Street outbreak. I have heard he had also been attending Mass with his wife, Erika, the new darling of alt-right.

These are facts websites like Protestia and Cody Libolt’s For The New Christian Intellectual (I think that’s what it is). Also, Facebook groups like Reformed Pub are making glowing posts praising Kirk for his brave stance against evil.

What happened to discernment?

It got clouded with politics.

These groups have embraced politics. They believe this country was founded with Christian principles by Christian men. A little bit of research would debunk that notion. Christians must be involved in politics because it’s the Christian thing to do. We must be salt and light.

I don’t see that anywhere in the New Testament. Paul preached the gospel. His speech on Mars Hill was a gospel presentation, not a foray into politics. Jesus’s remark comparing Herod to a fox was not a political statement, it was a descriptive comment about the moral character of Herod.

The martyrs of the early church didn’t preach or yell in the streets that they need to heard and have a place in the Roman government. They lived their lives through different waves of persecution, preaching the gospel and making disciples.

It is my lowly opinion that these discernment groups and websites have lost their focus, allowed politics to become part of their gospel beliefs, something they would’ve discerned in articles and podcasts when the leftist Gospel Coalition and the Russel Moore-led ERLC would proclaim some leftist talking point was gospel matter.

But now, exposed by Kirk’s visual murder (I don’t believe he was killed), politics is what matters most.