Tyler Perry dragged the Black Church
He used humor to do it
There is an old saying…
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
Unfortunately, for a number of Christians, Tyler Perry fooled them over and over again.
For those of you who are unaware, recent reports have surfaced of Tyler Perry being accused of some unseemly activity.
Whether those accusations are true will be left up to either a court of his peers or more than likely a settlement to make this all go away.
However, what cannot be disputed is the impact that Tyler Perry has had on Christians, in particular the Black Church, over the last 20 years.
It must be some kind of virus that causes sound thinking individuals to suspend their biblical discernment in order to watch a 6’6’’ man dressed as a woman and not to think anything is wrong.
I admit, I did it not only once, but twice.
My wife and I went to see two of Tyler Perry’s plays. We must have been really sick at that time.
Not only that, we actually paid money to go watch his movies. Man, that virus was running rampant between 2005 and 2010.
Eventually, we broke out of that deception and understood that watching a man pretend to be a woman was not something that believers should consume.
Now, some may say it’s just entertainment or art.
Well, that’s how the devil tricks you.
He weakens your resistance by giving you the thought that it’s just harmless fun or it’s not reality.
But, it is slowly normalizing behavior that is against nature and against God.
This is precisely what Tyler Perry did to the Black Church.
Tyler Perry made it normal to see men dressed up as women.
Tyler Perry dragged the church into believing this delusion.
Tyler Perry was pushing the agenda of secular humanism and perversion while we laughed and giggled at him on screen or on stage.
He even had preachers in on it!
And, that’s how the church loses its moral authority.
When we ceded our moral authority for entertainment value, we no longer were the salt of the earth or the light of the world.
Our lights become dim when we compromise our beliefs in order to be entertained.
That leads to a generation that is now more likely to condone grown men marching up and down the street scantily clad in front of children.
All because we wanted to laugh at a cussing, gun-toting, angry, black “woman” named Madea.