Owen Strachan - Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel--and the Way to Stop It

Christianity and Wokeness

How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospeland the Way to Stop It

Owen Strachan

Foreword by JOHN MacARTHUR, bestselling author of Only Jesus and chancellor of The Masters University

Owen Strachan has done a great service to the Church not only by taking aim at one of her most dangerous foes (wokeness), but also by pointing her again and again to her all-sufficient Savior and head. Few men possess the mix of intellect, winsomeness, academic rigor, pastoral sensitivity, and raw courage that drips from every page of this book.

Voddie Baucham Jr., dean of the School of Divinity at African Christian University and author of Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalisms Looming Catastrophe

This is an alarming and remarkably insightful book. It shows how wokeness is a deeply anti-Christian movement that even today is increasing racial divisiveness, anger, resentment, and hostility because it wrongly evaluates people based on the color of their skin rather than who they are as unique, individual members of the worldwide human race.

Wayne Grudem, Distinguished Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary

Whenever the Church faces a major threat to the purity of sound doctrine and a biblical worldview, God raises up a strong voice to confront that destructive error. That is what we have in this book. Refuting one of the most damaging ideologies of the day, Owen Strachan dissects and dismantles the present-day woke movement with theological precision and a polemical rebuttal. Paul charged that a spiritual leader in the Church must be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict (Titus 1:9). In other words, if truth is to be cherished, error must be exposedand denounced. Strachan does both in this book. Lest you fall prey to the secular agenda of the day, you will want to carefully read and internally digest this book. Truth is its own best defense.

Steven J. Lawson, president of OnePassion Ministries in Dallas, Texas

With regard to what is commonly referred to as wokeness (e.g. Critical Race Theory, liberation theology, social gospel, etc.), there are those who would suggest that it is safe for Christians to eat the meat and spit out the bones. But in Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospeland the Way to Stop It, Dr. Owen Strachan reminds believers in Christ of precisely why both the meat and bones of wokeness must be rejected. The evangelical Church will benefit greatly from the scriptural and scholastic heavy-lifting Dr. Strachan has undertaken in this extremely helpful and timely work.

Darrell Harrison, dean of social media at Grace to You and cohost of Just Thinking podcast

Woke teaching, Critical Race Theory, and intersectionality should not be in the toolchest of a Christian. They are dangerous ideologies opposed to the Gospel, biblical unity, and biblical truth. This book is an excellent introduction to these destructive heresies and a powerful presentation of the only truth that brings lasting reconciliation: the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ken Ham, founder and CEO of Answers in Genesis

This work should be read by those on both sides of the divide. Owen Strachans treatment of the subject as it pertains to the disciplines of sociology, economics, and politics is acute. However, my greatest delight is that his goal is not to win an academic or political victory, but to bring his reader to Christ. He sets before us the Scriptures as the ultimate standard and the Gospel as the ultimate answer for the human predicament.

Paul Washer, founder and director of HeartCry Missionary Society

Moved by concern for the Church, Owen Strachan has provided a valuable and insightful resource on Critical Race Theory, intersectionality, and woke culture. Christianity and Wokeness offers a perceptive analysis that explains why these ideologies are inconsistent with the Gospel and how they will wreak irreparable harm if left unchecked. Gracious yet firm, Strachan exposes the woke movement by showing how it is fundamentally incompatible with biblical Christianity. Conversations about race, ethnicity, social justice, and unity are important. But the Gospel, not wokeness, is the answer to these and other challenges. Thankfully, Strachan is a faithful guide for navigating these crucial questions.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council

The issues behind CRT are complex. The law of God diagnoses the disease, and the Gospel provides the cure. Owen Strachan has provided a non-emotional, winsome, and detailed analysis of CRT and the wokeness movement. He has exposed its faulty assumptions, has shown where the movement violates the biblical worldview, and has given us a fair warning about how, once again, the Gospel is at stake. I highly recommend the reading of this book. Let its truth sink in, then go and proclaim the Gospel with conviction and passion.

Miguel Nez, senior pastor of International Baptist Church of Santo Domingo and founding president of Wisdom & Integrity Ministries

Woke evangelicalism is in many ways an echo of the Emerging Church Movement that flourished at the start of the new millennium. Like that movement, the woke doctrine actively subverts the clarity and simplicity of the Gospel. In Christianity and Wokeness, Owen Strachan meticulously analyzes the trend, showing that wokeness is actually a false religion, incompatible with biblical Christianity. This is a refreshingly bold and compelling critiquea must-read resource for evangelicals who want to understand and properly navigate the prevailing cultural current.

Phil Johnson, executive director of Grace to You

As a pastor in Africa who has been coming to preach in the U.S. for a quarter of a century, I keep noting with interest the new trends that come up in the Church there. In the recent past, the biggest trend has been the subject of social justice. If you are keen to know why there is so much controversy concerning this matter, I highly recommend this book by Owen Strachan to you. It gives a lucid understanding of the concept of social justice and also argues convincingly as to why the Church should guard its doors against it.

Dr. Conrad Mbewe, pastor of Kabwata Baptist Church and founding chancellor of the African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia

Like Rip Van Winkle, many Christians today are sleeping through a revolution. The divisive, deceptive, and destructive forces of wokeness, identity politics, and Critical Race Theory are hard at work deconstructing American society, popularizing Marxism, upending justice, attacking Judeo-Christian ethics, promoting reverse racism, and belittling the reconciling Gospel of Jesus Christ. The book you hold in your hand is a wake-up call to the dangers of wokeness and a summons to stand in opposition, armed with Gospel truths that alone set people free. Lets start our own revolution by retelling the truth about God, creation, sin, and redemption in Jesus Christ. Owen Strachan has provided us with a book for our time. You must make time to read it! The future of the Church and the nation cannot be taken for granted.

Philip De Courcy, pastor of Kindred Community Church in Anaheim Hills, California, and teacher on the daily radio program