Monday’s Column: Neal At The Cross

Neal Pollard

IF CHRIST CHAMPIONED CANCEL CULTURE…

• The Samaritan woman stayed washed up.
• The Prodigal Son is stuck in the pig pen.
• Zaccheus is still up a tree.
• Peter is still casting nets, not using His keys and feeding His sheep.
• James and John, the sons of thunder, are all wet.
• Saul of Tarsus kept holding coats and chasing down Christians.
• Thomas drowned in his doubt.
• The thief on the cross is hung out to dry.
• John Mark might as well have stayed AWOL.
• Hebrews 11, what with Noah (the drunk), Abraham (the liar), Moses (the murderer), Rahab (the harlot), etc., is never written.
• At least five of the seven churches of Asia are in the dark.
• All humanity is hopeless (Rom. 3:23).
• He is neither faithful nor just (1 John 1:9). 
• He never would have died on the cross (1 Tim. 2:6).

That is not to say that God “winks” at ignorance (Acts 17:30), indulges willful sin (Rom. 6:1-2; Heb. 10:26ff), or encourages walking in darkness (1 John 1:6ff). But, God is the God of the second (third, fourth, etc.) chance. He is perfectly patient (2 Pet. 3:9) and fully forgiving (Heb. 7:25). Perhaps our world is open to the Christ of the Bible now more than ever!