Is Chick-Fil-A Wednesday a Bold Mistake?

Regarding Chick-Fil-A, the elephant in the room is, “Are they discriminating against Rockford, IL?” We can’t even buy a sandwich here. . .

Barnabas Piper thinks Chick-Fil-A Wednesday is a bold mistake. He concludes an article for World Magazine with this paragraph:

So I stand with Dan Cathy in his biblical affirmation of family but I cannot stand with those making a movement out of his beliefs. I do not question the motives of Mike Huckabee or those thousands joining him, but what about the wider effects? How is the Kingdom of God served by this? Is Jesus represented well to the gay community and the politicians pandering to them? Marching on Chick-fil-A tomorrow like an army will produce nothing more than defined battle lines, and the result will be greater contention and fewer softened hearts. On both sides.

Read the rest here.

Piper may be on to something. Should we enjoy Chick-Fil-A sandwiches? By all means. They’re really good. But does the exercise of rallying today at Chick-Fil-A have the potential of breaking down lines of communication with those who reject Christianity. It’s a question worth considering.

Denny Burk has interacted with Piper in a post:

Today countless Americans will heed Mike Huckabee’s call to rally in support of Chick-fil-a. Over 500,000 people have signed up to take part and to show support for a company that has been under fire over the last couple of weeks for its advocacy of traditional marriage. For the most part, conservatives have answered the call. But Barnabas Piper is a notable exception and is calling the show of solidarity with Chick-fil-a a “bold mistake.”

Read more here.

I think there is a possibility that the better approach would be to give Chick-Fil-A steady business rather than making an issue out of a particular day.

Published by Chris

7 thoughts on “Is Chick-Fil-A Wednesday a Bold Mistake?”

  2. I wonder if it wouldn’t have been better if it had just been agreed that all who support C F A would go there sometime this week, especially if they normally wouldn’t have, rather than going on a specific day. You know there will be true haters and dividers no matter what. As far as the division between us and them, that exists whether we want it to or not by nature of the issue.

  4. Everyone has a right to live the lifestyle they wish. It’s when they want to change my lifestyle by changing the world we live in that the rubber hits the road. 
    1. They will vote for a person who is not a natural born citizen of the United States because of their gay agenda.
    2. They will vote for a communist to promote their agenda. 
    3. They go into our government /public schools to push their agenda. Elementary, all the way through colleges. 
    4. LGBT lures confused teens to special youth groups to keep them from being “traumatized” by straight people and Christians. 
    5. They claim that they should have special civil rights like they are a separate race of people.
    6. They are trying to redefine marriage. 
    7. They are bullying The Boy Scouts of America. 
    8. They bully Christians and want us to throw out the bible. 
    9. They want to reshape our society. 
    10. They promote the idea of a genderless society by rewriting bibles. 
    11. They are bullying businesses to reflect their values and many businesses have already backed down. 
    See links below:
    Attacking our children
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrZJpt-tGxI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
    Gay is not the new black!
    http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2012/07/19/gay-is-not-the-new-black/
    Gay Agenda in Schools

  5. Yes it was very productive day for God! We didn’t do anything to gays today. We stood by a fellow Christian who was being persecuted!!!!!

  6. It is occurring to me that we are using this as yet another opportunity to show the world what we as Christians stand AGAINST (sin), rather than what we stand FOR (abundant LIFE).

    Yikes.

  7. I couldn’t put my finger on what was bugging me about this whole Chik-Fil-A thing, this article hits it exactly. At the end of the day, what was really accomplished? Thanks for consistently posting such helpful and balanced material!

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