Trinity has been a leader in the black church at accepting the GLBT community and Obama himself has addressed the issue many times.

But I’d like to make another point about Wright, and I must reveal a bit more about myself to do it.

A prophet must simply speak, because it’s not the prophet whose words are spoken, but the words of God himself. I would be willing to bet that Wright himself was troubled about uttering the phrase, “God damn America,” but he may have been moved to do so by a more compelling Spirit than his own.

If anyone would be justified in the hateful sentiment of wanting America to be damned, I might be on that list. I wa s without income, as an accomplished and experienced technical Ph.D. in this country, for more than 5 of the past 6 years. But you know my sentiment, from my comment to your prior post. To seek the destruction of America would be to seek my own destruction, and I have had a taste of that personal destruction.

Shortly before the “burst” of the “tech bubble” in early 2000, I was one of ~2500 Ph.D. employed by, at the time, the largest “startup” in US history, formerly part of what was for a large part of the 20th century the largest US corporation.

I was moved to deliver a prophecy to that company. No kidding. I can’t begin to tell you how hard that was, but I did it. And yes, I lost my job, but everything I spoke came to pass, in detail. This company’s stock dropped from ~$80 to, at one point, $.40, and it is now owned by a foreign company.

Anyone who pays attention to economic news knows that we’re facing the same kind of crisis as the tech bubble burst in 2000, but likely far worse. The Spirit in me tells me that both are part of the inevitable collapse of a country that relies too much on an effective government based on greed, instead of a truly democratic government based on mutual concern, which, by the way, was the true “gospel” of which Jesus spoke.

2 Thessalonians 2 talks about a church divorced from the truth, that instead follows error and rejects truth. And it speaks, in the midst of this, of a “man of lawlessness.”

Hmmm….

Maybe it wasn’t just Jeremiah Wright speaking those words.

Salvation, in the Christian tradition, requires repentance,
and repentance requires humility, by way of confession of one’s own sin, if not otherwise as well.

In the Old Testament, God offered, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land.”