“Winsome” is one of those words that make me feel like giving someone an Indian burn. The dictionary defines it as “cheerful, pleasant and appealing.” And Christian commentators are always advising us to “be winsome” as Team Satan tears down our country, debauches our culture, corrupts our churches, and comes gunning for our children.
Guess how many times the word “winsome” is used in the Bible, King James Version.
Zero! Never!
Was Our Lord Jesus Christ being winsome when He called the Pharisees, to their faces, a generation of vipers (Matthew 3:7, and elsewhere)? Was He being winsome when He fashioned a whip and drove the moneychangers from the Temple (John 2:15)? Or how about when He told His audience, “You are of your father, the devil” (John 8:44)? Think they found those words very winsome?
What do these commentators want of us? “Sure, tell the truth, that everyone who promotes homosexuality has a really good chance of spending all eternity in Hell–but simper winsomely while you do it!” Maybe we ought to have our pictures painted on velvet, with real big eyes–I’m told that’s winsome.
It’s okay to let people know that their actions are destroying the country, are exceedingly displeasing to God, and come directly from the Devil–as long as you can do it in a cheerful, pleasant and appealing manner? Maybe get the Doublemint Twins out of retirement: maybe they could deliver that message in a winsome way.
I think we’ve long passed by the time when winsome might have been of service to us. Don’t you?