I wonder how many churches, how many pastors...
are hearing their brown and black members' cries, their LGBT members' cries, their poor peoples' cries...
of racial profiling...
of injustice and disproportioned imprisonment...
of economic discrimination...
of the threat of deportation...
of losing the rights that others in the country enjoy because of who they love...
of being killed, unarmed in the streets...
of being held down, back and out because of their gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion or lack of one...
I wonder how many churches, how many pastors...
will read this text this week and confront their members who are politicians, business executives, law enforcement officers, citizens, teachers, administrators, civic leaders...
go to them individually... then with another member... then in front of the congregation, if they will not repent...
how many?
Would that the fundies would literalize this...
that those who claim Jesus would claim this...
that those who have large churches in the suburbs would preach this...
that those who are denominational leaders would encourage this...
that those who sit in the pews and breathe in the sanctuary air would hear this on Sunday...
would that they would...
but will they?
Pastor Jamie
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