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In light of the disgraceful white supremacist race riot we witnessed on January 6 in the nation's capitol, and the vote β all over again β in 2020 of more than half the nation's white Christians for Donald Trump, it really has to be asked: /1
How is it possible to preach the gospel at this point in American history, in a white church, and NOT deal squarely and honestly with the question of race? What about the gospel does NOT have immediate application to the most pressing concerns of the world around us? /2
Is it possible to preach the gospel β in a white church in the US β and pretend that racism is not a major, compelling force in the lives of Americans? Is it possible to preach the gospel and address sin that is only personal and not systemic? /3
Is it possible to be credible at all as a Christian pastor and NOT preach a gospel that has immediate, painful, uncomfortable relevance to the world in which we're living right now? /4
The reason white Christians are comfortable pulling the voting lever over and over for outright racists is obviously that their pastors are not preaching the gospel to them. It's painful to recognize on this day honoring Dr. King that not much has changed from the time /5
in 1965 when my Southern Baptist church was torn in two over the question of whether to accept Black members. When I witnessed the public debate about this and went to my pastor to tell him how troubled I was, as a boy of 15, at the open hatred I had seen displayed right in /6
the church sanctuary, he told me the church's role is not to take any stand in socially divisive issues, but to wait until things get sorted out and then follow the consensus of society.
I left my family's church after hearing this. /7
I left my family's church after hearing this. /7
