Paraphrasing St. Oscar Romero, “If a church is not publicly opposed to war, to murder, to political assassination, of what use is that church?” While we may hope that churches will avoid wading into partisan politics, we cannot be tricked into believing that ethics is the same thing as politics. As the USA inches closer to war with Iran and ignores even the executive order of Ronald Reagan forbidding political assassination, the prophetic church must now do the one thing for which we exist: speak truth to power.
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Dr. Roger L. Ray
pastor, The Emerging Church
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