Posted on 4/12/2016, 2:29:27 PM by HomerBohn
Coincidentally — or providentially — Newsweek magazine decided to place Jesus on its cover immediately following two large prayer gatherings, one of which took place in DC! Inquiring minds want to know: “What’s all this talk about Jesus Christ coming to our Nation’s Capital?”
Having lived in Washington DC for 24 years, and having worked across the street from the White House, I know it’s unusual for this kind of talk and photo to be so prominent. A regular feature on a top-rated cable news show says it best: “What the heck just happened?”
Surveys reveal that over 80% of Americans feel our country is off track. Statistics continue to reveal startling trends regarding our moral decline.
People are searching for answers and it’s an undisputed fact that multitudes are saying it’s time to turn back to God!
Increasing numbers of citizens are saying the only way to “make America great again” is to get to the root problem, which is spiritual. And the starting point is to address leaders, both spiritual and political.
One of the paramount problems in our nation still seems to be division, especially between races. Looking back at Ferguson and Baltimore and new incidents at political rallies, we all want to say that “black lives matter” except we don’t want to be identified with some of the polarizing, manipulative tactics being used by agitators and race-baiters.
My wife and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary not on the beach, but on our knees at times in the DC UnitedCry16 solemn assembly on Saturday.
A central feature of this gathering was repentance and racial reconciliation. Members of Dr. Martin Luther King’s family were present and there was public repentance and humbling for past racial sins.
Why Was the Turnout Low?
While the “Azusa Now” event in the LA Coliseum drew between 40-50 thousand, United Cry had an estimated 3,000. The evening before, when an array of about 100 leaders gathered for prayer, the primary organizer brought a prophetic word on Gideon’s army. Little did he know how serious the situation was to get.
We arrived at the beginning when Billy Graham’s daughter, Ann, spoke powerfully as we all stood in pouring rain, sleet, icy winds, and freezing temperatures! In advance we were alerted by authorities that if the wind was at a certain level they would have to close it down for safety. There is no doubt that the horrendous weather factor kept multitudes away.
Mike Berry, one of our leadership team, told me that in his lifetime he has participated in three such racial reconciliation events. Every one experienced brutal weather.
•Annapolis event in 2003 faced Hurricane Isabel scattering the masses, putting fear in people’s hearts.
•Philadelphia event in 2012 saw Hurricane Sandy bearing down, once again blunting the potential for a huge attendance.
•Washington DC United Cry in 2016 was not about a sun-soaked, cherry blossom experience but rather brutal weather conditions that scared masses away.
Jesus rebuked an ominous storm. Satan is called “the prince of the power of the air”(Eph. 2:2). Was what just occurred in the Nation’s Capital coincidental? Satan “knows that his time is short” (Rev. 12:12).
For all who participated in Saturday’s solemn assembly, we may have left a bit soaked, but we also left encouraged and greatly inspired by the experience. I personally believe that the adversary is stirring things up in the heavenlies because he realizes that Jesus is coming to Washington and L.A. and Atlanta and Nashville and New York and every city with the spiritual awakening for which we all pray.
Negroes who call themselves 'Christians' are mostly Democrats indicating that they are not true Christians. The Democrat Party is a party of baby-killers, perverts, fascists, welfare moochers, and general low-lives.
Obviously, these things are against everything Jesus stands for.
As far as "racial sins" go, it is the Negroes and the phony president and this foul government who are the most racist, and not the majority of whites and Asians.
Newsweek is dying and by putting Jesus on the cover they think that Jesus will save them.
It means the MSM is dropping their shorts to take a whizz on us again.
We have a few Democrats in our church. I told one of the elders that I for the life of me cannot understand how a Christian could support a party devoted to removing God from society, abortion, homosexuality, and booing God at their convention.
It means they're trying to sell the mag for $1,000 instead of $1!
I want to be very careful how I respond, but I was a participant in the Promise Keepers where tens of thousands of men filled stadiums seeking prayer and honestly seeking racial reconciliation and peace in for this country.
As a nation it seems that nearly every decade or so there has been legitimate efforts to seek racial reconciliation and repentance for racial injustices. What I have noticed at the Promise Keeper events was that they were primarily made up of White people with Blacks, far, far fewer in participatory numbers than their representation in society, were in attendance. I remember being quite discouraged by this.
The point is, how often do Whites have to seek out racial reconciliation? At what point do Blacks hold a responsibility to seek out repentance for their involvement in racial strife? When will Blacks feel burdened to seek out racial reconciliation and healing? Until Blacks share a common burden to repent and seek divine reconciliation I am afraid not much will really change.
Why are people like T.D. Jakes not working to seek racial reconciliation and mercy among Blacks? Where are all the Black gospel preachers? Do they desire God’s will or are they more vested in maintaining fealty to the Black sub-culture?
“and there was public repentance and humbling for past racial sins.”
How many times does this have to be repented for?
And, when is there repentance for being a church-goer and supporting abortion, gay rights, same-sex marriage, driving Christianity out of the schools and public life, etc.?
That was the dumbest thing I have read in a long time.
That is the dumbest statement I've seen on this board in quite a while. It would be more accurate to say "Democrats who call themselves 'Christians' are mostly....."
As it stands, though, it is quite racist. I know a LOT of black people who are true Christians. They may be naive politically, but their hearts are with the Lord.
BUT are they DEMOCRATS?
That is the statement I believe to be correct. Anyone who is a Democrat or a ‘moderate’ Republicrat (they stand for nothing) is not a true Christian.
How can one be naïve when they know the party sands for abortion, the homosexual-lesbian agenda, big bloated government that stifles Americans, welfare that makes whores out of women and pimps out of men, and a whole train load of other abhorrent crap?
I would say that your criticism of my remark is exceedingly dumb.
That, Obadiah, was very well put!
You don’t read much anymore do you?
I agree. The Dem party is on the wrong side of the Word of God on every single issue. Sadly, an awful lot of Republicans and Republican establishment are pretty similar.
We all sin their sins are no different than your sins, making statements like you did is what hurts all Christians.
Back when Newsweek was a real mag with a real cover, not a lame website, about once a year they put up a Christian or Jesus-themed cover story. Inevitably it questioned Jesus’ divinity and painted Christians as extreme and ridiculous.
That’s why I stopped reading Newsweek AND Time decades ago.
When stating the truth hurts Christians then the truth doesn’t really matter anymore. We should just not speak the truth when an issue like Democrats and racism keeps slapping us in the face and completely ruining America.
But what could one expect when we keep electing liberal pansies to rule and ruin our lives and our country?
It’s the mealy mouths(not saying, of course, that your criticism of my comments indicates that you’re one) who engage in the stupidity that some call political correctness, where one is afraid to speak the truth, that is ruinous.
A vote for democrats is a vote for abortion, buggery, contraception, perversion, socialism, feminism, racism, environmental extremism, unaccountable government regulation, endless growth of government, gun control, destruction of personal liberty, massive taxation ...
Approximately 90% of “Blacks” who bother to vote, vote for democrats. Majority “black” cities are ruled by the Democrat Party, and are cesspools. See the policies of the Democrat Party above, all enacted in Democrat controlled cities.
Anyone who claims to be Christian, and votes for the Democrat Party is at best horrendously ignorant and should quit voting.
Uhh--no. Let's break down what you actually posted:
Negroes who call themselves 'Christians'..
This is the subject of your sentence. Nowhere do you limit yourself to black democrats. Instead you lump in ALL black Christians.
...are mostly Democrats...
Blanket statement without any proof. Merely your impression of what you see in the media. Which leads to your conclusion:
indicating that they are not true Christians.
And which I claim does not reflect on their Christianity, but on their political acumen.
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