I want you to read something. Read it carefully – the way you should read anything before you share it, affirm it, or call it true.
This is a real post from X, shared recently and celebrated widely in the comments:
Posting about God is surprisingly divisive.
I’m sure some of my followers have muted or otherwise stopped engaging because the topic has increasingly become a focus of mine.
But the West made a huge mistake when we supplanted God with the religion of selfishness.
It spread across our cities and our culture like a virus.
It turns out a world full of selfish and sinful people is a lot like hell.
If I’m afraid to talk about it, what does that make me?
Who am I to fear my reputation?
It will take a lot of good guys to turn this ship around.
Technology will solve many of our problems the next few years. Some forms of death and disease will be eradicated. Dangerous and repetitive work automated.
But human nature will continue to betray us. We will chase things that don’t matter to impress people that don’t care and stomp on our father’s toes for an edge.
To solve this, we need God.
Before I say another word, I need you to know that what I’m about to do is not an attack on the person who wrote this. It is not cruelty. It is not judgment of a soul.
What I’m about to do is what every believer should be doing every single time they encounter content that uses the language of faith.
I’m going to hold it up to the light.
And I need you, at least for a brief moment, to see what I see.
Where Is Jesus?
Read it again. All of it.
Where is Christ? Where is His name? Where is the cross, the resurrection, the blood that was shed, the grace that was freely given, the salvation that was offered to every sinner who would receive it?
To solve this, we need God.
Which God? The God of the Bible – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – the God who sent His only Son to die for sinners and raised Him from the dead? Or a general moral force? A civilizational anchor? A cultural corrective for a broken society?
Because those are not the same thing. Not even close.
Christianity is not theism with better values. It is not a societal fix. It is not a correction to selfishness. It is the proclamation that Jesus Christ is Lord, that we are sinners in desperate need of a Savior, and that He came, and He died, and He rose, and He is coming again.
You cannot preach “we need God” without preaching Christ. If you do, you are preaching something – but it is not the Gospel.
Technology Will Save Us. Mostly.
Look at this:
Technology will solve many of our problems the next few years. Some forms of death and disease will be eradicated. Dangerous and repetitive work automated.
And then, almost as an afterthought:
But human nature will continue to betray us… To solve this, we need God.
Do you see it?
God is the variable. The gap-filler. The thing technology can’t quite reach. Human progress handles the hard stuff – disease, labor, efficiency – and God handles the pesky leftover problem of human nature.
That is not a Christian worldview. That is techno-optimism with a spiritual patch.
A genuinely Christ-centered faith doesn’t relegate God to the parts humanity hasn’t fixed yet. It begins and ends with the understanding that apart from Him, we can do nothing. That every breath, every healing, every moment of clarity is His. That human ingenuity without submission to God doesn’t save us – it just gives us more sophisticated ways to destroy each other.
This framing reveals the actual foundation of the post. And it isn’t scripture.
Courage That Isn’t Courage
If I’m afraid to talk about it, what does that make me? Who am I to fear my reputation?
The impulse to speak despite social cost is real and it matters. Boldness in faith is real and it matters. But there is a difference between speaking from genuine conviction and announcing that you are speaking from genuine conviction.
Real boldness doesn’t need to introduce itself. It doesn’t open with “I know this is divisive, but here I am anyway.” That framing is reputation management dressed as courage. It builds social capital while performing social risk.
The apostles didn’t say “posting about God is surprisingly divisive, but who am I to fear my reputation?” They just preached Christ. They were beaten for it. Imprisoned. Killed. The boldness was in the content – not in the self-commentary wrapped around the content.
There is a difference. It’s worth knowing.
The Religion of Selfishness
The West made a huge mistake when we supplanted God with the religion of selfishness.
This is not entirely wrong as a cultural observation. Selfishness has metastasized. The moral fabric is fraying. These things are real and they are serious.
But this is still a civilizational argument, not a Gospel one. It is nostalgic. It is political. It positions Christianity as the cure for a cultural disease, rather than the truth about who God is, who we are, and what He did about the chasm between us.
The Gospel is not “come to God so our culture gets better.” The Gospel is this: you are a sinner. Christ died for you. Repent, believe, and be transformed. Any cultural renewal that follows flows from that – but that is not where this post begins, and it is not where it ends.
This matters immensely, especially if you are a new or growing believer: if you absorb this framing, you will think Christianity is primarily about fixing what is broken in society. You will measure your faith by cultural outcomes. You will cheer for “God” without ever truly meeting Jesus. You will consume content that sounds like faith and call it nourishment – and you will be hungry without knowing why.
That is not a small thing. That is a tragedy.
Why I’m Telling You This
I’m writing this post because of the comments, more than anything else.
The comments under this post were full of “beautifully said,” “you’re storing up treasures in heaven, keep going,” “every Christian should read and understand this.”
I sat with that. I sat with the literal feeling of the spiritual weight of it, and it was heavy. It was heavy because those are not bad people in those comments. Those are likely people who genuinely love God and want to. They recognized spiritual language and they responded to it. I understand that. But, I also understand that without Christ, those are lost people.
I kept asking: does no one notice what isn’t here? And from that, this post was born.
I am not writing this to be divisive. I am not writing this to be harsh. I am writing this the way you warn someone you love – with urgency that might feel uncomfortable, because the stakes are real and the car is coming and not everyone can see it yet.
Christians, especially young Christians, hear me, please. Not every post that mentions God is Christian. Not every post that uses familiar vocabulary is rooted in a true foundation. You have to check. You have to hold what you read up against what the Word actually says. That is not suspicion. That is not arrogance. That is discipleship.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1)
The Call
Come to Christ. Not to a better civilization. Not to a cultural corrective. Not to a vague theism that makes society run more smoothly.
Come to the One who said I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). The One who said apart from me you can do nothing (John 15:5). The One who did not come to improve our culture – He came to die for our sins and rise again so that we could be made completely new.
That is the Gospel. That is what is missing in the X post, and in our world.
Know the difference, I implore you. It matters more than you know.
Closing Thoughts
I almost didn’t write this, and not because I wasn’t sure. I was sure the moment I read it. I was sure when I read the comments. I was sure in the way that settles in your chest before your brain catches up – that quiet, heavy knowing.
I almost didn’t write it because I know what it costs. Some people will read this and feel criticized. Some will unfollow. Some will call me divisive, or unkind, or “too much.” I’ve heard it before, every time I’ve shared a post or even a comment on someone else’s post that moves deeply through what is happening to the church. I have no doubt that I’ll hear it again.
But I kept coming back to the comments. All those people nodding. All those people receiving something hollow as if it were bread. And I thought about every new believer who might read that post and think, “oh, so this is what faith looks like,” and build on it, only to wonder later why the foundation keeps shifting.
I can’t stay quiet about that. This is not about bravery. It’s about the fact that I’ve been that person. I’ve consumed content that sounded like truth and wasn’t, and it cost me. I know what it’s like to build on sand without realizing it, and I know what it feels like when the rain comes.
So if this post made you uncomfortable – good. Sit with that. Not in shame, but in searching. Open your Bible. Read it for yourself. Don’t take my word for it either. Test everything, including this, against the Word.
And if this post made you feel seen, if you’ve been quietly noticing things and not knowing how to name them , you’re not alone, and you’re not crazy, and your discernment is a gift. Trust it. Develop it. It was given to you for a reason.
Jesus is worth being specific about. He is worth being exact about. He is not a concept or a cultural value or a civilizational variable.
He is Lord. And He is enough.
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