Singer Danny Gokey wants to be seen as a “truth and love teller,” encouraging fellow believers to be as “wise as serpents and gentle as doves.”
It’s a powerful and important quest in a divided and chaotic culture — one in which biblical truth is sometimes treated with disdain. Regardless, Gokey believes there’s a responsibility to speak about what’s right, true, and good.
“We should never get away from speaking the truth,” Gokey recently told CBN News. “Truth sets people free.”
Ultimately, he said some people will try to skirt what’s biblical, real, and true — but humanity can’t escape the facts and realities surrounding God’s will:
“We can sit there and protest gravity,” Gokey said. “We can make laws against gravity. You can cancel people over saying gravity is real, or that fire is hot. But, the thing is … it is what it is, and we’re not doing any favors playing around and mincing words to make people happy.”
He added, “We need to have the truth that sets people free. So, I do want to speak truth, but I want to do [it] in love, and I just don’t want to hit people on the head
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