A Modest Proposal: Don’t Dump Religion

[Garland-Green]

Kevin DeYoung
February 23, 2017

I know I’m tilting at windmills here. The die has already been cast. The ship has already sailed. The train has already left the station. Pick your well-worn metaphor.

But I have a modest proposal nonetheless: let’s not write and speak as if “religion” is the thing that good Christians are always against.

You know what I mean. Maybe you’ve spoken this way before. Maybe I have too. Religion is bad. Religion is about rules. Religion is about earning God’s favor. Religion is about trying; Christianity is about trusting. Religion is about reaching up to God; the gospel is about God reaching down to us. I understand the contrast. I agree with all that we want to affirm with such statements.

But is throwing “religion” under the bus the best way to make the point?

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[Lady Vizsla]

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)