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Redstate
An
Ecumenical Hope Post Zimmerman
Trial
By Erick Erickson
July 15th, 2013
The
death of Trayvon Martin and the
Zimmerman trial show there are deep wounds and grievances in this
country and
too many people who profit from fanning the flames. Too many in the
white
community see violence in the black community and think, “That’s their
problem.
Blacks killing blacks, we’ll let them figure it out.” But it is not
their
problem. It is all of our problem. No one wants to be a victim of
crime.
Besides, much of the crime is not related to race, but related truly to
income
and only superficially related to skin color. This is a problem that
will
continue to fester unless there is more dialogue. White and black
America more
and more speak in different language and, more and more, upper income
white
America speaks in a language completely different from the poor and
middle
class regardless of race.
From
my vantage point, the best
dialogue to transcend the divide is that of the saving Gospel that
heals all
wounds. Much of the societal decay we have now stems from decades of
government
trying and failing to feed the body with liberals trying and failing to
feed
the soul. There is, however, only one lasting food the soul can truly
digest
and only God can provide it. We will continue to have these problems
unless
evangelical, Bible believing churches, start building lasting
relationships
across racial lines in their own communities. There won’t be uniform
doctrine,
but there is one Jesus who churches can share — the Jesus who is, not
the Jesus
some create.
Want
to see evangelical, Bible
believers together at a rally regardless of race? Go to a pro-life
rally. More
and more white pastors have convinced their black brethren that
abortion is a
blight on the black community. They are right. The number of abortions
in the
black community is astronomical.
Sadly,
when black preachers rally
against violence in their own community, too often the rallies consist
of just
the black preachers and a few white preachers sprinkled about. All too
typically, these white preachers are the social justice liberals who
are more
interested in the social gospel and not the actual Gospel…
Read
the rest of the column at Redstate
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