The popular hymn O Come, O Come, Emmanuel may cause ‘unnecessary offence’ – Alamy
Unless otherwise stated I copy and paste headlines as they are written by the source. I do not like the word woke used to define what it does, as its origin is from ignorance and darkness, and as many words today what it has come to mean the exact opposite is true of its true meaning.
Woke as used by the world, or by most professed Christians refusing to appear different, separate from the world in views and living out their lives, or somehow incapable of understanding an alternative more apropos word is an erosive, destructive word to deflect and perpetuate lies no differently than the event that took place in the Garden of Eden between the Serpent [Satan] and our original parents, Adam and Eve, who out of self will were seduced by the lies, gravitated to the lies, and left the presence of God.
Woke = lost.
Woke = lies.
Woke = distortions, delusions, destruction of meaning and language.
Wake up to what woke means and for goodness sake stop using such slang and improper word usage that originated from a specific segment of culture and spread like the dark evil it is. Wake up to the words, ideas, views adopted and used. The origins. From God? And if not from God there is then only one other available source. The same one who has been present in presenting lies since the beginning, the father of all lies, all delusion, all rebellion from God and the truth — SATAN.
Be a Satan follower or a Christ follower. Those are the only two choices before every person on earth.
To the point, it has infected many in the professed Church. Many in churches in the West. Many pastors, preachers, priests, and professed men of God who have become lost and had their itching ears tickled to pass along lies to those gathered before them with itching ears desiring lies over truth.
Weak. Worldly. Loving the world more than the Lord while professing to be His.
Imagine that.
Well, just make sure to read, study, and meditate upon the inerrant infallible eternal unchangeable living, and active Word of God to discover why this is happening and the consequences to those, and the world who practice, live, and preach such things. And what as a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, firm in the faith of Jesus the Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, we are to do.
“Unnecessary offense.”
Utter rubbish and anyone more concerned with offending a person by speaking or writing the truth rather than offending God will reap what they sow — eternally. No matter who they may be and how they imagine themselves, delude themselves.
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Isaiah 5:20
Read on…
Ken Pullen, Christmas Eve, 2024
Woke carols are the latest sign of a church that’s lost faith in its convictions
Christmas Eve, 2024
By Celia Walden
Reprinted from The Telegraph [in the U.K.]
If you’re planning to attend a carol service tomorrow night, you might want to check out the hymn sheet first – make sure you don’t end up bellowing out: O Come, All Ye Wokeful.
You see, priests have been told to edit popular carols this Christmas in order to avoid (I really need to create a custom keyboard shortcut for this phrase) “causing unnecessary offence”. Quite why you would be in a church to begin with if you found Christianity so offensive has not been made clear.
Do you see many vegans in butchers demanding to talk to the managers? Last time you were down the pub, did you notice any teetotallers raging at the landlord about his “disgusting wall of booze”?
Yet according to a whistleblower vicar, Church of England clergy across the country have been contacted and urged to alter various Advent hymns “to avoid upset”. Those singled out as particularly concerning are O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (for depicting other faiths as being “outside of God’s grace”) and Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (the clergy have been sent a link to research suggesting the second verse contains “problematic words” by stating Jesus is the “true Messiah”).
In a further email sent to the Birmingham diocese, clergy were advised to: “Try to use language that won’t add further confusion or tension or take away anything from the good news of the Nativity.” And they wonder why the pews are empty?
If the Church of England were a business – and learning to operate like one is probably the only thing that could save it now – it would have gone into receivership years ago. Why? Because you cannot sell people a product while simultaneously apologising for the abject awfulness of that product.
Imagine if every time you bought a finger lickin’ good tub of Kentucky Fried Chicken, you were made to spend 10 minutes in the KFC confessional, admitting to the catalogue of mental and physical failures caused by your junk food addiction. Pretty quickly, you might be inclined to get your fix somewhere else.
Given the collapse in both belief and attendance, most Brits have given up on their supposedly national Church, only they’re not getting their fix elsewhere.
They’re giving up on faith entirely. And all because the Church doesn’t have the courage of its own convictions. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad. Because if a religious institution doesn’t have convictions, what hope is there for the rest of us?
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