How can you make your families and churches “woke-proof”?
Countering Woke Culture with Biblical Truth
Wokeness, and everything that stems from this philosophy, is incredibly destructive to people, to families, and to communities. But there’s a simple solution—and it starts in Genesis! For today’s blog post, enjoy this insightful letter from our Executive CEO Martyn Iles:
The person who understands and believes Genesis 1–11 is woke-proof.
Such is the enduring relevance of Genesis. It has the blueprints every generation needs.
Consider the focal points of woke ideologies—race, LGBTQ, identity, environmentalism, marriage, gender, abortion, truth, power—time and time again, the answers are in Genesis.
This is because “woke” culture is an attack on the way God ordered and designed creation.
To be “woke” simply means to be awake. Awake to what? Awake to all the kinds of oppression in society that used to go unnoticed because they are hidden in the “system” we’re living in.
But what is the “system” which is so oppressive? Well, woke ideologies say that things like marriage are part of this system of oppression, or the gender binary, “heteronormativity,” the ethnicities of people, and so on.
They actually think that we can destroy these realities and be less oppressed as a result!
But these realities are not “systemic oppressions.” These realities are just, well, reality! They are God’s creation design and order.
Thus, woke culture is an attack on creation.
Hence, the answers are in Genesis, because Genesis 1–11 is about God’s design and order in creation. It specifically addresses the things that wokeness attacks.
Right now, there is a wave of compromise sweeping the Western world, including America, on all these woke issues. A generation is being taken out of the church, believing Christianity is bigoted, hateful, and oppressive because it believes in God’s creation order and design.
This woke critique is causing pastors to compromise and the world around us to reject the Christian faith.
But Genesis shows us the connection between how things are made and how we must therefore live. It answers this woke critique by describing realities—like males and females, the fact of only one “race,” and so forth—and then showing that these realities hold the key to understanding our world and living wisely.
Genesis shows that the very things wokeness attacks are for our good!
For the past five years, I have been teaching Australian young people about the connection between Genesis and the woke ideas they are being confronted with. This teaching always had a major impact on them and fortified them in their faith.
Seventy of these young folks have just visited the Ark Encounter to participate in our brand-new, 10-day Catalyst program. They came all the way from Australia just to be there.
Young people are hungry for answers. We’d like to build more housing so that we can run these programs year-round—the demand from around the world is huge.
But Catalyst is only the beginning.
by Ken Ham on February 17, 2024
Featured in Ken Ham Blog
Until next time.
Wokeness, and everything that stems from this philosophy, is incredibly destructive to people, to families, and to communities. But there’s a simple solution—and it starts in Genesis! For today’s blog post, enjoy this insightful letter from our Executive CEO Martyn Iles:
The person who understands and believes Genesis 1–11 is woke-proof.
Such is the enduring relevance of Genesis. It has the blueprints every generation needs.
Consider the focal points of woke ideologies—race, LGBTQ, identity, environmentalism, marriage, gender, abortion, truth, power—time and time again, the answers are in Genesis.
This is because “woke” culture is an attack on the way God ordered and designed creation.
To be “woke” simply means to be awake. Awake to what? Awake to all the kinds of oppression in society that used to go unnoticed because they are hidden in the “system” we’re living in.
But what is the “system” which is so oppressive? Well, woke ideologies say that things like marriage are part of this system of oppression, or the gender binary, “heteronormativity,” the ethnicities of people, and so on.
They actually think that we can destroy these realities and be less oppressed as a result!
But these realities are not “systemic oppressions.” These realities are just, well, reality! They are God’s creation design and order.
Thus, woke culture is an attack on creation.
Hence, the answers are in Genesis, because Genesis 1–11 is about God’s design and order in creation. It specifically addresses the things that wokeness attacks.
Right now, there is a wave of compromise sweeping the Western world, including America, on all these woke issues. A generation is being taken out of the church, believing Christianity is bigoted, hateful, and oppressive because it believes in God’s creation order and design.
This woke critique is causing pastors to compromise and the world around us to reject the Christian faith.
But Genesis shows us the connection between how things are made and how we must therefore live. It answers this woke critique by describing realities—like males and females, the fact of only one “race,” and so forth—and then showing that these realities hold the key to understanding our world and living wisely.
Genesis shows that the very things wokeness attacks are for our good!
For the past five years, I have been teaching Australian young people about the connection between Genesis and the woke ideas they are being confronted with. This teaching always had a major impact on them and fortified them in their faith.
Seventy of these young folks have just visited the Ark Encounter to participate in our brand-new, 10-day Catalyst program. They came all the way from Australia just to be there.
Young people are hungry for answers. We’d like to build more housing so that we can run these programs year-round—the demand from around the world is huge.
But Catalyst is only the beginning.
by Ken Ham on February 17, 2024
Featured in Ken Ham Blog
Until next time.
61-69, M
