MY TAKE: Prayers for Charleston
I have put off discussing the tragedy that occurred at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Charleston, South Carolina.
My heart is still heavy. Only the scum of the earth would brutally kill 9 people, let alone brutally kill them within the confides of a church.
As a Christian, this issue has touched my soul deeply. As a black Christian, the anger within me is battling with the compassion I have been taught to have.
If you don't know the story by now, here are a few details:
For further info into the hate group the killer was associated with, google it.
I refuse to let him have anymore shine on my website.
I am in daily prayer for the family members and church family of those slain at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The church is a safe haven, a place of prayer and peace. And for someone to come in and try to inflict fear is an act purely of Satan himself.
But the devil will not win this. God still gets the glory. Our faith is strong. Those lives are lost and our hearts are heavy, but we know that our faith will continue to grow stronger in the Lord.
Our President, Barack Obama gave a powerful and moving Eulogy at the Pastor's funeral last week. If it didn't touch you, you need to check your pulse. Continue to keep those in Charleston and those carrying the blood stained banner for Jesus Christ, all over the world, in your prayers.
My heart is still heavy. Only the scum of the earth would brutally kill 9 people, let alone brutally kill them within the confides of a church.
As a Christian, this issue has touched my soul deeply. As a black Christian, the anger within me is battling with the compassion I have been taught to have.
If you don't know the story by now, here are a few details:
- A 21-year-old white man opened fire on a prayer meeting he had been attending in Charleston. 9 people were shot and killed and he fled the scene.
- After an intense overnight manhunt, police arrested the killer 200 miles away in North Carolina.
- The case was being handled as a hate crime.
- Among the dead was Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney , the church’s pioneering pastor and a state senator.
- Two other men and six women were also killed
- The church is one of the nation’s oldest black congregations, with a history dating to the slavery era. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke there in 1962, when it was a center of civil rights organizing.
- The killer received a gun for his birthday in April, and his Facebook photo shows him in a jacket bearing the flags of two former white supremacist regimes, in apartheid-era South Africa and the former Rhodesia.
For further info into the hate group the killer was associated with, google it.
I refuse to let him have anymore shine on my website.
I am in daily prayer for the family members and church family of those slain at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The church is a safe haven, a place of prayer and peace. And for someone to come in and try to inflict fear is an act purely of Satan himself.
But the devil will not win this. God still gets the glory. Our faith is strong. Those lives are lost and our hearts are heavy, but we know that our faith will continue to grow stronger in the Lord.
Our President, Barack Obama gave a powerful and moving Eulogy at the Pastor's funeral last week. If it didn't touch you, you need to check your pulse. Continue to keep those in Charleston and those carrying the blood stained banner for Jesus Christ, all over the world, in your prayers.
I spoke with a few members of the Crew, Tim Jones and Calvin Thomas about the tragedy. We send our deepest condolences.