The Best Disinfectant

We get vaccines to prevent infections. We wash our hands and use hand sanitizer to keep from spreading germs to ourselves or others. So what are the infections that Christians must guard against?
​       Echo-chambers.
     An echo-chamber is a world created in a bubble. It has its own look, feel, vibe, vocabulary, community, and shared purpose. There are political echo-chambers (Trumpism, Fox News, Right-wing media, and Bidonites, MSNBC, CNN, and their media machine). There are commercial echo-chambers run by large corporations to win allegiance from their consumers. There are racial subcultures, class subcultures, and cliques of all kinds. These echo-chambers reinforce feelings of fear, inadequacy, being slighted, etc. They offer a sense of belonging and identity. They promise to make you someone.
       There is only one echo-chamber that Christians should belong to. That is the echo-chamber of faith, reinforced by our personal relationship with God, the Word of God, our faith rituals, and the fellowship with have with other saints. This is an eternal echo-chamber--the only one that will endure forever.
       We are called to be in the world, but not of it. We are not to be worldly. This means that we are not to become part of any other echo-chamber. We are to stand aside, disconnect, keep our distance from all of these in order to remain faithful to Christ. Only then can we begin to present something of the Kingdom of God to others, inviting them to leave their echo-chamber, which offers life but cannot deliver, and join Christ's Kingdom, an echo-chamber of hope, love, and true identity. Oh, the riches that are ours in Christ!