A Voice Crying Out
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
Title: A Call to Repentance From Inside the Church
I am a white American Christian man. For most of my life, I did not believe I was prejudiced or judgmental. I believed in equality. I believed in faith. What I did not do was use my voice—because I didn’t have to. Injustice did not threaten me, and silence was comfortable.
That silence is itself a form of privilege.
Recently, I heard a man stand in church and declare that “white Christian men in America are under attack.” The statement startled me—not because it was emotional, but because it was untrue. Those who have historically held power are not being persecuted. They are being questioned. And Scripture teaches us that accountability is not oppression.
From the founding of this nation to the present day, white Christian men have overwhelmingly shaped its laws, institutions, churches, and culture. Even now, in the most diverse Congress in U.S. history, white Christian men remain the majority. If the nation is fractured, if injustice persists, responsibility cannot be endlessly shifted to minorities, immigrants, women, or the marginalized. Leadership carries accountability.
The Gospel does not allow us to rule without repentance.
Within the Church, we must reckon honestly with how Scripture has been used—not to liberate, but to control. Women have been burdened with the responsibility for men’s lust. Entire doctrines have been shaped to preserve male dominance rather than mutual honor. Yet Scripture teaches that husbands are called to sacrificial love, not entitlement; to service, not superiority. When we distort Scripture to protect power, we take God’s name in vain.
We must also confront how the Church has treated the outsider. From Native Americans to enslaved Africans, from immigrant laborers to refugees, white Christian men have too often justified exploitation with moral language. Even today, migrants and foreigners are scapegoated for economic and social anxieties they did not create. Silence in the face of these patterns is not neutrality—it is participation.
Jesus did not cling to power. Paul writes that Christ, though equal with God, emptied Himself and took the form of a servant. If Christian faith means anything, it must mean a willingness to lay down privilege for the sake of others.
This is not a call for performative guilt or symbolic gestures. It is a call for repentance—real repentance. Repentance that listens before speaking. Repentance that defends the unheard. Repentance that confronts injustice even when it costs social standing or influence.
Christian nationalism has confused dominance with faithfulness. When political power is baptized as divine mandate, the Church ceases to be a witness and becomes a gatekeeper. History shows that when God’s name is used to justify exclusion and conquest, judgment follows—not on the marginalized, but on those who claimed to represent Him.
Judgment, Scripture says, begins in the house of God.
I am not writing as an outsider attacking the Church. I am writing as someone inside it, pleading for honesty, humility, and reform. There is still mercy for a contrite heart. There is still time to choose service over supremacy.
But repentance cannot wait forever.
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