If you have not heard the name Jeremiah Wright this weekend -- you are probably experience an electrical blackout or you gave up TV for Lent. Pastor Wright is the controversial leader of the church that Barack Obama attends - Trininty UCC of Chicago. Over the years, Dr. Wright has been a spokesmen for the Black liberation theology movement which basicly views the Bible and the gospel through the eyes of the discriminated and oppressed African American. Basically the gospel is seen not as the way to be freed from the penalty of sin and to escape the wrath of God but that true redemption is becoming free from human suffering that was afflicted from racial prejudice. What happens is that a militant and black racism occurs and the gospel's forgiving, loving, peaceful and integral power is forgotten!
Somewhere actual video of Dr. Wright spewing his hatred and flammatory statements about causcasians, the US government, The President and others were paraded across the TV screen primarily to make Obama look bad and to force him to speak out. The problem is that when speaking out -- instead of completely denouncing Wright and the Black Liberation Theology Movement -- he said that "he was not present when these statements were made....and if I was I would not have stanyed at the church." WAIT A MINUTE>>>> are you telling me that you attend a church 20 years...you are married by the man...you heard the other 45 weeks a year and you did not know he is an angry, anti-American, racist liberational theologian. People who have attended our church for 2 years can tell you what I believe and especially what is really passionate in my preaching! Obama has an intergity problem.
But more so we again are forced to ask the question -- is this man truly a believer? If he is a christian, how does he justify his non-biblical ideas on how believers - no matter the color of their skin -- act towards each other? He has a lot of answering to do. And he has a lot of answering to his church. The message from their pulpit this week was -- "Why the Black Church will not be Quiet?" Wait a minute when I came to Christ, I became a member of the "Body of Christ." One Lord, One Faith, One Birth....ONE CHURCH. I know that the white church has to answer for its prejudice, bigotry and segregation. But the New Testament Church was a completely intergrated church - jew- gentile - free - slave - man - woman...all in one accord, praising God together!
What is wrong with Wright...? He is doing exactly what white separatist did -- keeping the church from becoming what God wants it to be - ONE BODY UNDER CHRIST!