Pandemic Preaching - Cancelling People
"And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.All these are the beginning of sorrows.
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.
And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another."
-Jesus of Nazareth, 1st century
Matthew 24:6-10
I Am Offended
The internet era and the age of social media has given rise to a phenomenon unique to our generation today. We call this as the cancel culture.
Essentially, cancel culture is about certain "influential" people or groups of people being "offended" over something someone was reported to have said or caught on record to have said or something someone was rumored to have done.
The "offense" and the "hate" being so "great" that these "influencers" use their (what else) influence and public perception, and they use the internet, social media, the news and word of mouth to "cancel" someone or something.
You Are Canceled
Cancelling someone or something would mean that a multitude of people being influenced would now boycott those being canceled.
Never would a person living in the first century be able to predict such a phenomenon. Meaning, the speed and the scope of this phenomenon because essentially this movement can have someone or something canceled all around the planet in as little as a few minutes. This would be hard to imagine even just a generation ago.
And as we have read from the excerpt above, how Jesus was describing the end of days, that line about many being "offended" and "hating" one another, really fits this thing we call cancel culture.
The internet era and the age of social media has given rise to a phenomenon unique to our generation today. We call this as the cancel culture.
Essentially, cancel culture is about certain "influential" people or groups of people being "offended" over something someone was reported to have said or caught on record to have said or something someone was rumored to have done.
The "offense" and the "hate" being so "great" that these "influencers" use their (what else) influence and public perception, and they use the internet, social media, the news and word of mouth to "cancel" someone or something.
You Are Canceled
Cancelling someone or something would mean that a multitude of people being influenced would now boycott those being canceled.
Never would a person living in the first century be able to predict such a phenomenon. Meaning, the speed and the scope of this phenomenon because essentially this movement can have someone or something canceled all around the planet in as little as a few minutes. This would be hard to imagine even just a generation ago.
And as we have read from the excerpt above, how Jesus was describing the end of days, that line about many being "offended" and "hating" one another, really fits this thing we call cancel culture.
Going Viral
Today people are offended over just about anything. People take offense even over things someone was merely rumored to have said or done (yes whether true or not). And as we have already seen, the internet, social media and the news networks will have this buzz trending and circling the planet within mere minutes.
And sometimes the "offense" is over something superficial and exaggerated to the point that it would reach a level worthy to be trending and twitter or news worthy.
The end of days are here but the actual end is yet to come. For one thing still remains, although already taking place as we speak and as the pandemic still rages on:
Matthew 24:14
"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come."
Yes, this is happening also online and using new technologies, in spite of or actually because of the pandemic.
Pandemic Preaching
Today people are offended over just about anything. People take offense even over things someone was merely rumored to have said or done (yes whether true or not). And as we have already seen, the internet, social media and the news networks will have this buzz trending and circling the planet within mere minutes.
And sometimes the "offense" is over something superficial and exaggerated to the point that it would reach a level worthy to be trending and twitter or news worthy.
The end of days are here but the actual end is yet to come. For one thing still remains, although already taking place as we speak and as the pandemic still rages on:
Matthew 24:14
"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come."
Yes, this is happening also online and using new technologies, in spite of or actually because of the pandemic.
Pandemic Preaching
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