How Should Christians Respond When Slighted or Gaslighted? A Reflection on Easter and the Transgender Day of Visibility

The world is becoming increasingly proficient at telling stories that deny God. As such, we need thinking Christian to become as natural as breathing. Welcome to the Thinking Christian Podcast. I'm Dr. James Spencer. Through calm, thoughtful theological discussions, Thinking Christian highlights the ways God is working in the world and questions the underlying social, cultural, and political assumptions that hinder Christians from becoming more like Christ. Now, on to today's episode of Thinking Christian. Hey, everyone, welcome to this episode of Thinking Christian. I'm Dr. James Spencer, and today I'm going solo. I wanted to talk about an article that I had published on FoxNews.com this weekend regarding the convergence of the Transgender Day of Visibility and Easter, both of which fell on May 31st this year. The article really does respond to some specific comments made about the United States, you know, really beginning to come after Christianity and, you know, that there are these attacks on the Christian faith. I'll address those in a minute, but I thought it'd be good at the beginning here just to give a general outline of how I think about these issues, specifically the issue of transgenderism. I think that the Bible tells us two things. Number one, that we have many misdirected desires and that those misdirected desires are indeed sinful. I think about Matthew 5 where Jesus talks about lusting after a woman being adultery. It's not that any physical act is taking place. It's that the actual desire, the feeling, the emotion of lust is resulting in adultery in the heart. And so our misdirected desires, we just don't have the right compass to lead us through life. And so when Jesus talks about being the way and the truth and the life, I think part of what he's really pointing to is that humans are lost, that we need a new way, that we need to have our feelings and our emotions and our general perception of the world reimagined, transformed by following him. And so I think there is something very deep within us that, and obviously I think it's related to sinfulness and rebellion against God and just a lack of knowledge of him in general. But overall, I think that we have that sort of feeling issue. I think we have a desire problem and that desire problem is only fixed in Christ and it's only fixed as we continue to imitate Christ. We could say that about a slew of other behaviors, about a slew of other desires, but the reality is that the transgender conversation is the one that is very sort of out there in the moment. And so I'm not trying to call out this particular sin as any more pernicious than any other, but I think that in the moment, it's probably the most prominent or one of the most prominent that we could look at. But I think as we think about misdirected desires, we're obviously led to things beyond the sort of radical choice that comes with choosing one's own gender. We could easily be led into conversations about greed. We could be led into conversations about, you know, heterosexual sinfulness and those kinds of things. We could be led into questions about drunkenness or any number of those topics. And so we have to be careful not to, I think, raise the transgender sort of ideology and conversation that we're having right now in the United States beyond the level of, you know, sort of the universal sinfulness, the general misdirected desire that all of us struggle with and the recognition that these misdirected desires are the fruit of being disconnected from and unwilling to sit under the authority of Christ. These misdirected desires are solved through discipleship. And oftentimes the first step in discipleship, it means that you are initially accepting Christ through faith. Other times it's you've accepted Christ through faith, but we all hold on to some of our misdirected desires and it's the Holy Spirit convicts us of those things. We experience sanctification. And so there is just a desire problem I think we have to wrestle with and understand. The second thing is a behavior problem. You know, obviously, you know, when we're acting out on our desires, those desires become more and more evident. And again, pretty much everything I just said would relate to this behavioral realm, but I just want to make sure that I emphasize that I'm not suggesting that it's only the behavior that matters. I think the two can't be disconnected. When we start to disintegrate ourselves like that and we start to say that our feelings can be one thing and our, but they don't really matter as long as we don't act on them. That's not quite, I don't think biblically accurate. And so we, we've just got to sort of wrestle with that. It isn't just that our behaviors are wrong. It's that the desires of our heart are skewed. And so we, we've got to recognize and acknowledge that. I think just the third thing to clear out is I don't think that the world, particularly the governing authorities in the state, are autonomous. I think they sit underneath God. And so, you know, we see this in Romans 13 where God establishes the authorities and thus it is appropriate for us to some, some significant degree to speak to those authorities in a theological manner. What I think that we can't do is expect those authorities to recognize the, that they have delegated authority from God or that they sit beneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ when they're not people of faith. And, and I think that to expect the entity of the state, right, the, the broad amorphous entity of the state to be quote unquote Christian is sort of a misnomer. I deal with this a lot in my new book, Serpents and Doves, Christians, politics, and the art of bearing witness. And part of what I, what I sort of argue in there is that when we talk about Christian worship, when we talk about Christian doctrine, these are things that a mixed multitude of Jews and non-Jews who have been united in Jesus Christ do and think together. We worship, we proclaim the triune God. We have doctrine. These are the convictions that the community shares together. But when we start talking about a Christian nation, I think we're saying something slightly different. And that's okay. We can say something slightly different. It's not like we can't argue that there wasn't a Christian influence or that the Bible was not one of the texts that was drawn on for inspiration as our nation was founded. We can say those things. That's not an issue. But the, the issue in my mind comes when we start to think that saying the United States is a Christian nation means the same thing as saying Christian worship or Christian doctrine, because I just simply don't see how it can. In the, in the latter two instances of Christian nation or a Christian doctrine and Christian worship, we see this mixed multitude of Jews and non-Jews together, united. And they are worshiping the triune God. They are learning from the teachings and trying to express those teachings in doctrine from the triune God, from his revelation of both his word and his son. But when we talk about a Christian nation in America, I think the best that we can possibly do, we can say that there was a Christian influence, that there were Christians involved, but I'm not sure that involvement or that even some sort of, you know, vague Judeo-Christian ethic of some sort would really constitute the United States as quote unquote Christian. The United States, I don't believe was founded as a Christian nation. I believe that it was founded on moral underpinnings that are adjacent to Christian teachings, but that largely ignore the theological aspects of Christian teaching. In other words, we just came off of Easter. We just celebrated the resurrection. Let me ask you a serious question. If something triggered a major market drop in the coming months, would your retirement be ready or exposed? 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of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus Christ can't be told as a morality tale. It's a historical event that actually happens that has real-life implications for our lives. The history and theology of it, in other words, have practical implications. We can't leave Christ behind or say that this is some sort of mythic story that it didn't actually happen, but look at the story itself and the structure of the story. And oh, look, we can think in terms of how can we self-sacrifice for others? If Jesus wasn't resurrected, that doesn't make any sense. And so the theology is tied to the ethic. The theology is tied to the practical implications. And when they're decoupled, what we end up with, I'm afraid, what we end up with often is that we start to say, well, there are these general principles out here that actually are higher than God, and that when we talk about God, whether it's the triune God or Buddha or, you know, Allah or whichever God we're talking about, that's really just a series of different religious sects gesturing toward these ultimate principles and dressing them up in religious garb. And so God becomes subject to these universal principles, or probably better, as a representative of those universal principles. But that's not actually what Christians believe. Christians believe that God is God, and that all of these things that we notice about the world, the moral structure that we tend to gesture toward in some of our legal codes and have been gestured to in legal codes throughout our history, throughout human history, these are our inclination, our sort of understanding of there is a God out there, and this is what it looks like for us to be moral together. And so God sits above any of these moral principles. Those ideas are linked inextricably to who God is. He becomes the foundation of all of our actions, and this is what it means to be made in the image of God. And so one of the things that we'll hear as we talk about, you know, something like a transgenderism or really anything related to humanity is we'll hear a lot about human dignity. And at times, in fact, in one of the previous Transgender Day of Visibility speeches that Joe Biden gave, he refers to the image of God. And oftentimes, I think, we're activating the image of God to underscore the dignity of all of every human being. And I think that's very true. That is a true statement. The problem is that we stop there because the dignity is not just conferred, right, in, you know, some sort of a created status. The dignity also demands something. It suggests something that if we're made in the image of God, then preserving that dignity is not simply the responsibility of everyone around us to show respect for that image which we bear. It's also our responsibility to learn how to reflect the glory of God and thus the dignity that he has bestowed on us. In other words, when we decide to reflect something other than the triune God, when we decide to reflect something other than the creator God, we are diminishing our own dignity. And so a lot of times when we're thinking through these issues, that's going to come up, and we just have to understand there's two sides to this image of God coin. There is the aspect where, yes, we as humans need to demonstrate that we think other humans have actual dignity. But then there's this whole other side of it where we have to say, and all those created in the image of God have a responsibility then to exercise that image of Godness in a way that is defined by the creator, not by the creature. And so all of that sort of cleared the ground with some of what I want to say here going forward, because right now I want to change topics a little bit about why I wrote the article on Fox. So number one, you know, and one of my colleagues was sending me certain social media posts, and I read a few things online and was looking at some of the responses that people were giving to the Transgender Day of Visibility's overlap with Easter this year on March 31st. And a lot of it was related to, look, they're coming after Christianity. This is an attack on Christianity. You know, the reality is that March 31st had been the sort of traditional day that Biden had made the Transgender Day of Visibility in previous years. And so unless we want to give his administration, you know, multiple years of forethought to make sure that it landed on Easter, I think we can say that this is an unfortunate coincidence of these two dates, and that he may not have planned specifically to say, hey, we're going to make this land on Easter this year. I think that's number one. I think number two, you know, it is puzzling why he wouldn't have thought to move it, why his administration wouldn't have thought to move it. And again, the way I sort of phrased that in the article was, I don't see that having these two dates converge actually helps to bring people together. It seems like that would just be evidently divisive. Now, what you do with that is going to be difficult. If you leave it on, you know, if you allow these two to share a day, you're probably going to have some Christians upset with you because, you know, we obviously have been pushing back against, many Christians have been pushing back against the transgender ideology, and, you know, that's a frustration for many Christians. And so having it overlap with a Christian holy day, you can almost expect a response. By the same token, I can envision if Joe Biden had moved it, pushed it a day forward or a day back, that he would have gotten a similar frustration from the transgender folks who are advocating for transgender rights, basically saying, look, it's been this day for the last two years. Why not this year? You're kowtowing to the Christians. You're bowing down to the evangelical voice. You're doing your thing. And so I think oftentimes what we just need to recognize is that, yeah, governing a nation is probably really complex, and at times you're not going to be able to please everyone. And so this was a choice. It's a choice that I don't happen to love, but I think that the issue really does run probably a little deeper and in different ways than maybe we want to admit. And so, again, I don't see how this would have ever been construed as designed to cultivate unity. If anything, you could argue that it was designed to cultivate discord. But overall, I'm not sure what decision he could have made that wouldn't have made one group within the United States that he's trying to service particularly unhappy. So in this case, there's a lot of Christians who may have been unhappy with that, probably a lot of conservatives who may have been unhappy with that. And so we can dwell on that unhappiness on the day of our Savior's resurrection or we can ignore it and really focus in on Jesus, his resurrection, and the recognition that the Biden administration won't be around for much longer, max another four years, right? The resurrection of Jesus Christ and his lordship will last into all eternity. And so let's just put it in perspective. Now, what really prompted me to write the article, though, wasn't necessarily my frustration about the convergence of, you know, Transgender Day of Visibility and Easter on March 31st. I think what prompted me to write the article was the comments regarding the attack on Christianity. Part of my concern here is just this. If we continue to live in a world where we are dividing people into black hats and white hats, into good people and bad people, into people who are for Christianity and people who are against Christianity in the way that we are, I actually think we're missing a crucial biblical teaching. It's just so crucial. And so, again, I deal with this a little bit more in my book, Serpents and Doves. But in that passage in Matthew 10 where he actually calls his disciples to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, what he tells them is that the world will betray them. Not one political party within the world, not one nation rather than another, but that the world will betray them. Anyone who is not in Christ will betray Christians. There's always that possibility. And so he encourages them. First, he sends them out with basically nothing.

you know, no surplus. He sends them out to the lost sheep of Israel, and he says, hey, look, go out, share the gospel message to those who respond well to you, um, stay with them, depend on them, like depend on those who receive the message. But if a city rejects you, knock the dust off your feet. And what I think he's saying there is to say, when you knock the dust off your feet, you're not taking provision from these people. You're not depending on these people. Why? Because these people will betray you. I think what Jesus is pointing to is the strength found in the unity within the body of Christ, that those who share a faith in God and what he is doing and what he's promised, people who share faith in Christ have a strong tie together. We're bound together. We're not going to betray each other because betraying each other is to betray Christ. Now on the other hand, and he makes this point, you know, he talks about familiar relationships and even being aware of those, recognizing that in times of trouble, these, as strong as they may be, are relatively weak in comparison to the tie that we are to have together in faith. And so as we look at what is being said, right, when we look at something like some of the messages that were going out, you know, where this is a specific attack on Christianity and, oh my gosh, this is specific, you know, the government's coming after Christians or whatever. There's a part of me that wants to say, yeah, that's probably true. Like this is a point where the, where the United States is showing its true colors, showing that it has no vested interest in making disciples for Jesus Christ. But that should be evident to us. And it should have been evident to us for a long time that the United States has no vested interest in making disciples for Jesus Christ. So long as being a disciple of Jesus Christ doesn't disrupt the state, it's allowed. It's fine. No big deal. But ultimately the state needs us to fall in line with the state and being a disciple of Jesus Christ simply will not allow that forever. We cannot coexist peacefully forever. That's what Jesus is trying to tell his disciples. He reiterates that in Matthew 24. We see the persecutions within the Roman empire. You know, we've seen this throughout our histories that Christians can coexist for a time and we're not supposed to be openly rebellious. We see that at multiple points in the New Testament. But at the same time, there is something to be said for suffering for Christ. I mean, Jesus didn't do anything to upset the Roman empire. He wasn't trying to overthrow anyone. And so again, as we serve a crucified savior who was crucified innocently, he was just telling the truth, being who he was. And the established authorities around him, both Jewish and Roman, couldn't allow that. It was too destabilizing. And so then what happens? Well, he's crucified. It's very similar for what will happen, I think, for Christians. And so we don't have to do anything offensive, right? But what we have to recognize is that anyone who is not in Christ could ultimately betray us. That I think is the teaching of Matthew 10. And that, you know, as we're interacting with the state, sure, let's interact with the state in a wise fashion. Let's, let's push for the rights that we've been guaranteed in the constitution. We don't have to give any of that up necessarily, but the, but at the same time, we have to recognize that those, those rights are brittle because the state itself is brittle. That there's always a way around those rights. There's always a way to manipulate the laws and that our security is not found in what the United States provides us. Our security is found in Jesus Christ. We are sojourners and exiles. We are citizens of heaven. Like that's where we live. We just happen to be here. And so my concern is again, not to say that I don't think the United States is sort of against Christianity. That's not the point. My point is to actually make it stronger and to say that when this dynamic becomes a political talking point, it's frustrating to me and concerning to me because what I see is Christianity being pandered to by a conservative political party. And I don't know that that's any better than what we see from a liberal political party. Yes. Are there certain policies and procedures that Christians might like to see that we might like to see preserved in America so that the church can do what it does without a lot of government coercion and without state interference? Of course, I think we'd all love to see that. But the reality is that we don't have friends who are sort of on the other side of the aisle. We have each other. We have the faith community. We are the church. The church is who we need to depend on, the people who accept the message of Jesus Christ. And I don't believe that that will ever be the state, particularly as an entity. There may be governing authorities, individuals, who are within that apparatus, who are part of the community of faith. And to that extent, I think we should trust them and support them and be, you know, working with them. But as an entity, the state is not theologically remarkable when I mean when I say that is it doesn't have any covenant obligation from God apart from sort of, if you believe in a creation covenant, right? But it doesn't have any special covenant relationship with God. That now is the church. It's the assembly of Jews and non-Jews united in Jesus Christ. And so I'll close it up with this and just say, as we look out in our political environment, I think it's becoming increasingly evident that Christians are being pandered to. We have one candidate selling trying to sell us God bless America Bibles. We have a lot of, you know, politicians coming out and conservative speakers coming out and talking about, you know, faith and family and freedom and arguing that we need to get back to our, you know, the roots of our Christian nation. I don't think any of that is particularly helpful. And I don't think it's particularly helpful because I don't think it's particularly true. Let me ask you a serious question. If something triggered a major market drop in the coming months, would your retirement be ready or exposed? With inflation, market volatility, and ongoing global uncertainty, more families are taking a closer look at whether their retirement plan is truly built to hold up. And many are finding that adding a layer of protection makes a lot of sense. Sanctuary Metals is a Christian owned company that helps families strengthen their retirement savings with physical gold and silver through a gold IRA. During uncertain times, many people look to precious metals as a way to add stability when other assets may be under pressure. If you'd like to explore whether a gold IRA is a good fit for your situation, Sanctuary Metals makes it easy to get started. Text GUIDE to 94878 to receive your free retirement defense guide or call 888-958-6579 to speak with one of their knowledgeable team members. Again, text GUIDE to 94878 or call 888-958-6579. I think if we look at the biblical record, if we actually read the Bible well, what we are going to find is that the United States is not, in fact, a Christian nation in the sense that we mean Christian doctrine or Christian worship. And that because it's not a Christian nation, and maybe I can say it like this, it's not a nation for whom Christ is essential. And because Christ is not essential, we are always going to be at odds with the United States because we are trying to pull people under the authority of Christ Jesus. If the United States is trying to pull people under a different sort of authority, even if that authority is their own autonomous authority, that's going to rub up against what we're doing. We're doing two fundamentally different things. And so this is the crux that I see. This is the problem that I see when I look out and I look at the reactions that were made on because of the convergence of the transgender day of visibility and Easter. I see it as an opportunity for those pandering for evangelical votes or trying to lobby evangelical interests. It gives them just another opportunity to tell a very simple story, to rally certain Christians around them and to build a base that they can use to, you know, change the political landscape into something that they want, but not necessarily build the body of Christ. And so the article goes on and talks a little bit about the way Christ handled things.

And, you know, obviously, Christ handled things in a number of different ways. There were times when Jesus really did rail against the Jewish authorities and speak to them truthfully about the way that they were handling things. And I think that that is absolutely something Christians should do. I'm not at all calling Christians to be silent. I don't think that Christians need to be silent. And I think that there is an appropriate way for us to speak to our governing authorities in a theologically robust manner. What I am calling Christians to be careful of is tying our theological wagon, so to speak, to a political horse. We don't need that horsepower. The church is a politics in and of itself. And so when we proclaim Jesus as Lord, that is not some sort of an ethereal idea. It's a concrete reality. Jesus is Lord. He has authority over all things. And when we're saying that he has authority over all things, we're also saying that the state is not the ultimate authority. That is a political claim. And so I would just encourage Christians to say, look at some of these things that are happening in the United States. Number one, read Matthew 10. Maybe you'll come to a different understanding than I do. But for me, when I read Matthew 10, what I see is the house of faith is who we are to depend on. Those who receive the message of Jesus Christ, that's who we're to depend on, not the state. It doesn't matter how moral or how conservative or how closely our values may align. I'm not saying there's no utility in that. I'm not saying that we, you know, shouldn't vote, for instance, or participate in politics at all. But what I'm saying is that we have to do that in a way that is wise as serpents and innocent as doves. We have to recognize that this whole thing is actually quite brittle, quite fragile, and that there's no reason for us to lean on it. You know, there's a passage in the Old Testament in Isaiah that talks about leaning on the broken reed of Egypt and having that broken reed pierce one's hand. And I think, you know, in sort of the spirit of Paul, I don't think this was written just for the ancient Israelites. I think it was written for us. If we lean too heavily on a broken reed, it will pierce our hand. And I think that broken reed is American politics today. So my my final word on this is just this. I saw the whole conversation, not just the decision to leave the Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st so that it coincided with Easter. But the whole conversation that I saw, I saw it as a distraction. This is Easter we're talking about, folks. This is like the Christian Super Bowl. This is our moment. This is when Jesus Christ rose from the dead. This is when he conquered all things. This is when his life was vindicated, his life and teachings, all of it vindicated. This is why we follow him. If he stays in the grave, even Paul says our faith is in vain. The resurrection happens to vindicate all that Jesus said and did, everything he taught. God raises him from the dead, ultimately glorifies him and sits him at his right hand in heaven. Like, that's really profound for Christians. It's the cornerstone of our faith. It is the central pivot. It's everything for us. And so to be distracted because some earthly governing authority decides that that day for us should coincide with another day. I don't know. It just felt like a huge distraction and a completely unnecessary distraction. And to me, if we forget that the good portion is found by sitting at Jesus' feet and decide to busy ourselves with the political realm, the political realm has won. We put our attention 100% on Jesus Christ. We recognize him as infinitely more relevant than any other actor or factor we're dealing with at the moment. And within any given situation that we're in, we respond to him as opposed to responding to the situation. That's what we do. That's discipleship. That's worship. That's evangelism. That's charitable giving. That's loving your neighbor. You can list off a whole slew of things that that entails. None of them are being distracted by some sort of ridiculous political decision on Easter. And I would say that Easter only heightens this. We do this on a daily basis. Like, Easter's not magical. Yeah, it's important because we're celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But the reality is, Jesus was resurrected once. He's still alive. And every day, we're supposed to be walking in a newness of life following him. And so, we don't get a break. We don't get a break from following him. At all. And so, as I mentioned in the piece, one of the lines that I wrote in the piece, and I'll just leave it here with this. I say in the piece, our world doesn't need to change for us to serve Christ. And I get that from 1 Corinthians 7, 17 through 14. Paul talks about remaining as you were called. So, our world doesn't need to change for us to serve Christ. We serve Christ until the world around us changes. And then we serve Christ some more. I do not believe, even for a second, that our role is primarily to change the world. Our job is to be the church in the world. And if the world happens to change, great. Guess what we'll do. We'll continue being the church. But some of the most profound acts that we can perform, worship, discipleship, giving, loving of neighbor, you know, forgiving our enemies, praying for those who persecute us, all of these different things derive not from some sort of weird ethic. They derive from our position, our nature, our calledness, right? Being called into the body of Christ. And so, as we look at some of the things that are happening around us, our response should never be to default into, oh, what would a Republican do? What would a Democrat do? What would a Libertarian do? What would a whatever do, right? Because we're only those secondarily or tertiarily. We are first and foremost Christian. And so, that was the heart of the article that I wanted to write. It was really to remind Christians that whatever else we do, right, whatever ways that we respond in a world that is so broken only God can fix it, we respond to the triune God. Our role is to point to and magnify the triune God, period. That's it. And to the extent that we do that and we do it well, maybe other things will change. But even if they don't, it does not give us license to point away from the triune God or to try to glorify something other than the triune God. It doesn't give us license to set aside our responsibility in order to fix something. If the world falls apart, so be it. But it has to fall apart with us being Christian and standing there as salt and light. The world needs an alternative. It does not need a Band-Aid. And so, when I look at this, what I would just say is, Christians, look, let's just hone in on discipleship. Let's build the body of Christ for the sake of the world so that they can see an alternative. Let's set aside all of this outrage and all of this frustration and all of this sort of crazy political pandering that we've got going on. And let's just focus on being the church. Because I believe that when we practice discipleship, God is going to do well beyond anything we could ever ask or think. I'll end it there for today. And just thanks for listening. I hope you had a fantastic Easter season. Check out the article on Fox if you'd like to read a little more. And, you know, hopefully you can tell I'm passionate about this issue. I think I'm, in a lot of ways, the details still need to be worked out. But the basics never really change. We're Christians first. And that means that we point to and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and the triune God of which he is a part. And we continue to be disciples in a world that needs to see Christ. They need to hear the gospel. So those are the essentials. And how we work those out can differ widely. I have my own ways of handling that. But I don't know that the details are important as, or as important as really deeply committing to the basic notion that what we're here for is to be and make disciples. And part of that entails teaching others and learning for ourselves what it means to observe all Christ commanded. Thanks, everybody, for listening. We'll catch you on the next episode of Thinking Christian. I just want to say...

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