Greetings Fellow Clergy & Activist,
"To everything there is a season, and a
time for every purpose under the heaven".
We are presently in a season of urgency
and a window of time is given to us to
accomplish his purpose in that season. I
would like to urge you to take your
social activism to another level in this
hour of a special season. Please
don't misunderstand me I know many of
you have been models of diligence and
perseverance and the civil rights
movement for life has prospered due to
your commitment. You have given much but
this season that is upon us will
prove to be critical and your
faithfulness will reap a greater harvest
of life.
As you will read below, the movement
puts far too much emphasis on "main
stream media" that has proven its bias
and ideological resentment to the Judea
Christian ethic. If we start attempting
to rely on its presence we also made
become diluted and perverse and thus
forget where our ultimate hope lies.
There are acts of faith motivated by the
Holy Spirit that moves an angelic host
to bring about deliverance and justice
for the oppressed. Its worth is not
determined by a jaded main stream media
but a God who beholds the hearts of men
and women and hears their cries. It is
God who has asked the question "Is
there anything too hard for me to do."
We have come into a season where God is
now asking not Fox, CNN or MSNBC to
begin a conversation but for the church,
Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Catholic,
Baptist, Presbyterian, or Pentecostal to
elevate the conversation that will
lead to conviction.
In this season you will lend your social
media, E-mails, church advertisements,
billboards, bulletin boards, cell
phones, Sunday School classes, youth
meetings, book & bridge clubs or
whatever that is within your sphere of
influence to in some cases start and
others rekindle a conversation that
leads to conviction.
Obviously this is not of any human
interpretation nor can it be analyzed to
determine its success by earthly means.
It is a move of the Holy Spirit and the
means by which it is facilitated will be
the way it is sustained. If main stream
props you up it can take you down. The
best way is "We the People" or as II
Chronicles 7:14. "If My people which are
called by my name." We must elevate the
conversation!
The drug
culture has a language of its own that
was not created by main stream media,
but resulted because they had to
communicate. Their conversations brought
about an understanding and communication
that would affect millions. The word
"joint" or nickel bag or back in the day
"munchies" was not propagated initially
by main stream media but the language
was known from Los Angeles to New York
City. The Pro-Life Movement must do the
same and in the African American
community especially this conversation
must and will begin now.
It is the
season!
Censorship or being "ignored" is due to
the person or person’s previous
assessment of the worth of the persons
or thing. It is assessed relative to
their own personal interest or priority.
The persons or thing being ignored is
not significant enough to acknowledge,
by the person being implored. What we
choose to ignore or censor reveals the
purity (or lack of) of our purpose.
When it is clearly the African American
community being targeted deliberately
and systemically we must conclude that
the obvious continuance of the policy
would be directly due to the
perpetrators assessment of the worth or
value of the targeted persons.
This is why the pro-life movement is a
civil rights movement that recognizes
the worth of every child and therefore
defends and earnestly seeks to end the
injustice viciously levied upon
unsuspecting children in the womb;
disproportionately African American’s.
Normally I wouldn't but in this
season I will ask that you forward
the links below as a step of your
commitment to step up the "conversation
that will lead to conviction." Get them
on you E-mail and Face Book friends.
Your act of faith will give the Holy
Spirit the seed it can water and it will
grow and multiply. Thank You For Your
Support!
Thank You So
Much,
Rev. Clenard H. Childress Jr.
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