We Can't Unkind Our Way To Reconciliation

There is a collective guilt of sin that white America has for its past and present treatment of the black citizenry of our great country.  That sin must be confessed and rectified, a rectification that will take years. The act of being sorry for past grievances is best met with forgiveness and reconciliation, which will result in an ongoing cleansing of guilt and a remaking of right relations and relationships.  There are always two sides to forgiveness, one, the act of being repentant matched by the second, being offered forgiveness.  Its model and clarity are most clear in humans and God in Christ, which I believe was sincerely modeled by Martin Luther King Jr. who was leading a whole nation, black and white, through this Godly process.  We have now allowed media, politicians and radical elements to be put forth as new models of how this process should take place by being unkind and being unkind to one another.  We are no longer brothers and sisters in the struggle together but enemies in a war in which one side must win and the other be destroyed.  In this new climate, it is all the more imperative that the Church takes on its moral and rightful role of leader.  It is the church that should begin to lead in the pulpit and marketplace to model repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation and once again be the place in which this great need of America is addressed and resolved.  The first step is to acknowledge The Truth of Christ in our hearts for reconciliation and the second would be a sincere integration of our sanctuaries.  It is impossible to be unkind while in the act of corporate worship or move into the marketplace unchanged by the act of worshiping together.  We all have a problem and desperately need a model by which we can address and solve it.  There is no better model than The Son of God and humans willing to accept His Lordship over their lives and their problems.