Why you should care about the Second Baptist Houston lawsuit

Can we feel that there are human beings, very close to us, created in God’s image, who are being buried? If we cannot, perhaps we need to be silent and attentive in order to listen to their stories of suffering due to spiritual, social, economic, and/ or physical conditions that are foreign to us.

Amy and I had a fight last week. Well, let’s call it a disagreement. Since we share all pastoral responsibilities at our church, we try to be careful to distinguish between professional and personal issues. I think this was both….

¿Podemos sentir que hay seres humanos muy cerca, creados a la imagen de Dios, que están siendo enterrados? Si no podemos, tal vez debemos guardar silencio y poner mucha atención para así poder escuchar sus historias de sufrimiento debido a condiciones espirituales, sociales, económicas y/o físicas que nos son desconocidas.

In these troubled times, we now pay tribute to our savior. It is in you we find our safety and security. It is to you we run when we are threatened; when our enemies come against our children and our families, we turn to you.