A Message to the White Protestant Church in Our Troubled Times
A Message to the
White Protestant Church in our Troubled Times
2 Cor. 5:16 NRSV
“From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point
of view, even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know
him no longer that way.”
2 Cor. 5:16 The Message
“Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what
they have or how they look. We looked at
the Mwssiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that way any
more.”
Phil. 3:4b NRSV
“If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I
have more:”
Phil. 3:4b The Message
“ we can list what many might think are impressive
credentials.”
The White Protestant Church in Alabama has failed God. We evaluate people by what they have and how
they look. You have to be born straight,
out of a white, thin, rich belly from a white male, as a white male to count. We no longer see our Christ as a poor, brown,
unattractive, Jewish, Palestinian, peasant as the embodiment of God’s rule
among us, as the spokesperson and demonstration of the Queendom/Kingdom of God.
It is no longer our desire to follow him in the ethic of the Sermon of the
Mount. We have become satisfied to make
him an idol on the pedestal of a non-ethical creed and to try to use him in a
magical way to manipulate God to satisfy our human desire for possessions,
place and power while abusing the creation.
We have no desire to preach good news to the poor on our doorstep,
liberate the oppressed immigrants, free the poor black mass incarcerated
prisoners or cancel suffocating student debt and to build a compassionate and
just society.
We are satisfied to
think our eternal salvation is accomplished by holding some illogical,
irrational opinion about Jesus and the Bible but never knowing Jesus and
following Him or ever reading what the
Bible says about social justice and living it.
The White Protestant Church in Alabama can list for itself
what many would consider impressive credentials while it exist in a morally
corrupt, racists, ignorant, poverty ridden, oppressive, punishment oriented,
war seeking, society that shows no resemblance to the word and work of
Jesus. The White Protestant Church in
Alabama is the political power base that elects politicians who work to keep
this morally corrupt society in place.
Therefore, it is time for us to reengage the words and work
of Jesus and the Apostles and the Prophets and to know that highfaluting ideas
and opinions about Jesus and the Bible do not provide any safety, security or
salvation. We must come to a faith that works by love, striving for communities
that embody the reign of God Jesus modeled, seeing every human being as a
precious child of God and seeing all creation as a holy place to use, enjoy and
preserve, not a place to abuse.
We need a Moral Revival built on the solid rock of Jesus’
words worked into our lives. A Moral
Revival that restores our brokenness and through compassion leads us to
establishe justice for all and heal the creation.
R. Lawton Higgs, Sr.
3/9/16
3 Comments:
This is blasphemy, R. Lawton Higgs.
Shame on you for trying to hammer the square of Holy writ into the asinine circle of modernity. Shame on you.
I was thrown out a homeless shelter in Saint Louis Mo. Salvation Army trying to find a job and 5 hrs interview with the owner of the shelter and went to the dentist with xray test results saying i had gingivitis and i simply died before speaking at this meeting about family values.
This was Candace Lynette Buckner story nonfiction comment.
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