A recent Gallup poll on Americans worried on race relations indicated that we are at high level. Some 42 percent said that they were personally worried about race relations in the U. S. This figure is up from 17 percent in 2014.
We don’t really need a poll to tell us that race relations are torn asunder. We can feel it in the air.
One church member told me that she never thought there would be a time when race relations would circle back to the experiences she lived through as a child. Yet here we are.
What are we going to do? We are not sitting on our hands complaining! We are doing our part to breathe some Jesus on this frightening racial polarization with our month-long “Ebony and Ivory” preaching series. The plan is to invite people who do not look like us to worship. I am preaching sermons based on the Bible and leadership from my book, “Lead Yourself Now.”
The goal is, if I may borrow a phrase from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “To learn to live together as brothers and sisters, so we don’t perish as fools!”
Your Pastor,
Dr. Sheron C. Patterson