Why We Feel Spiritually Co-Opted (And Why It’s Not Just in Your Head)
For me it didn't happened in one dramatic moment.
It didn’t happen because of one crisis, one book, or one bad church experience.
It happened slowly.
Headline by headline. Outrage cycle by outrage cycle. “Christian side” vs. “Christian side.”
Somewhere along the way, my faith stopped feeling like following Jesus — and started feeling like I was being recruited into a war I never enlisted in.
I wasn’t being discipled. I was being drafted.
📍 The Subtle Shift No One Notices at First
It felt that I was getting my doctrinal queue's mostly through:
- political talking points
- culture-war voices
- denominational loyalty tests
- tribal “real Christian” rhetoric
- social media outrage cycles
Every camp seemed to claim Jesus — but none of them looked like Him.
One day He was a conservative general. The next, a progressive activist. The next, a polite inspirational life coach.
Same name. Different agendas. Zero lordship.
📰 The Moment It Clicked
I was scrolling the news one morning when I noticed something:
Every headline had a Jesus angle attached.
“Christians must stand against ___.” “Jesus would affirm ___.” “True believers can no longer stay silent about ___.”
Everyone wanted Jesus on their side. Nobody seemed interested in being on His.
That’s when it hit me:
“I have been un-voluntarily recruited, that's why my faith feels hijacked, politicized, in pre-packaged versions that keep being sold in Jesus name.”
📖 The Real Jesus Never Played for a Side
When the crowds tried to make Jesus king — He walked away (John 6:15).
When Joshua asked the angel of the Lord, “Are you for us or for them?” — the answer was: Neither (Joshua 5:13–14).
Jesus didn’t come to be a mascot for our tribe. He came to be King — over every tribe.
He doesn’t join sides. He takes over.
🧠 Maybe We’re Not Spiritually Burned Out — Just Spiritually Drafted
Maybe we’re not faithless. Maybe we’re exhausted from carrying a Jesus He never asked us to carry.
Maybe we feel spiritually co-opted because...
We’ve been following a Jesus who was already co-opted.
Not the Jesus of the Gospels. The Jesus of the news cycle. Of the influencer. Of the algorithm.
And that Jesus can’t heal you. He can only recruit you.
📘So! I'm Writing about "The Grunt, The Woke, The Polite, The Real Jesus"
I didn’t start writing this book to go viral. I wrote it because I needed to detox from all the counterfeit versions.
The Grunt Jesus. The Woke Jesus. The Polite Jesus.
All of them loud. None of them Lord.
And the more the fake ones fell apart, the clearer the real One appeared.
🤝 If You Feel This Too…
You’re not crazy. You’re not rebellious. You’re not “losing your faith.”
You might be closer to recovering it than you think.
I’m building an email list for those who are tired of the noise and ready to rediscover the real Jesus — the King who refuses to be owned.
Join the Movement. Follow the King. Let's get back to Kingdom Work.
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