John Cooper has been known for years as the frontman for Skillet, the popular rock band with a Christian lyrical bent. But in recent years, Cooper has also become an outspoken commentator about the state of the nation — and the church.
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His new book, “Wimpy, Weak, & Woke” examines “increasing conflicts in America” and explores what he says is truly at the core of cultural angst: “a war between gods – the living God and the god of man.”
“I wanted to write this book about utopianism … for anybody whose eyes are open — and you don’t even have to be all that smart to see our world is crumbling,” Cooper told CBN Digital. “Western civilization is on the brink of just collapse.”
He continued, “I think every week people go, ‘OK it can’t get weirder than this,’ and then the next week, wrong, it just got weirder.”
Cooper said it’s time for people to confront the fact that too many Christians have elevated winsomeness over truth, subjugating the latter to a point that has made some churches ineffective.
“They die the death of a thousand caveats, because
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