Stop Debating What Jesus Would Do—and Start Following What He Did

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Why faith collapses when opinions replace obedience and Christianity becomes a loophole

At some point, “What Would Jesus Do?” stopped being a question… and started being an opinion. And a Christian loophole.

It became a holy Rorschach test—where we saw whatever we wanted to see.

• Quoting “law and order” while ignoring Jesus’ command to love the stranger and welcome the foreigner?

• Quoting Scripture to shame sinners, but never to serve the suffering?

• Defending our team while abused children need protection and justice?

• Being more outraged about transgender athletes than about kids without food, healthcare, or safe homes?

• Demanding the highest moral standards from everyone else while excusing corruption, cruelty, and abuse of power from our political demagogues?

Yeah… somehow that became “what Jesus would do.” 🙄

But Jesus isn’t defined by what we think He would do.

He’s defined by what He actually did.

He fed the hungry. He cared for the sick. He touched the untouchable. He lifted the lowly. He confronted the proud. He forgave, restored, wept, and loved. And He didn’t do any of that selectively.

He moved toward the very people the religious crowd avoided.

Jesus died every bit as much for your culture-war enemy as He did for you.

No fine print. No exemptions. No asterisks.

But somewhere along the way, we started asking, “What does my belief system allow?”instead of, “What does following Jesus require?”

And following Jesus has always been costly.

It still is.

If our faith never costs us comfort… never risks our reputation… never challenges our traditions, our churches, or the way we apply theology to ourselves and others…

Then we may be defending Christianity without actually following Christ.

So maybe it’s time to stop debating what Jesus would do—and start imitating what He already did.

Because WWJD? Apparently that’s now open to interpretation.

But WDJD—what Jesus did? That’s the example that changed the world. That’s the example we’re called to follow.

Scripture doesn’t leave this up for much debate:

“Whoever claims to live in Him must live as Jesus did.”(1 John 2:6)

See that? Did. Not “live by what you think He would do.”

Because Jesus didn’t just give us something to believe.

He gave us His example. Someone to become.

So if it doesn’t look like Jesus, it has no business calling itself Christianity.

Because no amount of Scripture can justify what contradicts Christ.