Why Cancel Culture Can't Touch Me [Chapter Three of 'Uncanceled']
I was canceled once, but the Almighty canceled my cancellation.
Most of us did something awful as teenagers — something that would be mortifying if it showed up years later on all these little black boxes we call cellphones. But what if something did resurface in Computerland?
Take Mimi Groves. In high school, she used a racial slur in a three-second video clip she sent to a friend. After she went to college, Jimmy Galligan published that video to destroy her — to cancel her. She was booted off the cheerleading squad and forced to withdraw from the university, and it's happened to thousands like her. It could happen to any one of us.
That’s one reason I wrote "Uncanceled: Finding Meaning and Peace in a Culture of Accusations, Shame, and Condemnation." It’s out on February 8, 2022, but you can read chapter three right now:
Time traveling back to someone’s teen years and digging up old sins to use against them today is a special kind of cruel. At an age when the part of the brain that controls impulsive behavior isn’t fully developed, we’re all capable of profound stupidity. I know I was.
But when the court of cancel culture is in session, there's no innocent till proven guilty. There's no trial or defense or room for growth. You're just guilty. Forever.
Here's the thing: Sin can never be paid for by canceling others; only Christ’s blood can do that.
Condemning others won’t add one speck of goodness to your life. In fact, you’ll be more miserable than you were before, and here's why:
You were not created to cancel.
You were created to uncancel others by loving them enough to tell them about the only one who’s ever been good: Jesus! You were saved to tell others about the one who can liberate us all.
I was canceled once, but the Almighty canceled my cancellation. Being in Christ is the antidote to anything Satan throws at us. It’s all the protection we need.
If you want another sneak peek at “Uncanceled,” read chapter one here on Substack.
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. “ Matthew 7
Apple's of gold in settings of silver. Thank you Phil