So, I just spent my entire weekend, and tonight, working on a final project on youth violence. This is the final paragraph of my paper, tying in a faith component to the issue. It may be a bit of a rant, but my heart has been heavily burdened for the last few days and this is what came out.
The faith communities need to rise up and let their voices be heard crying out for the generations who are dying on the streets. Christians need to take Isaiah 61 to heart and seek to set the oppressed free and declare a day of freedom for the captives. They can no longer sit inside their safe fortresses of church buildings while the world is dying around them. They must realize how their inaction is affecting the city. They must be told. Christians who know, who have seen, who have experienced the devastation of what is happening in the urban cores to youth need to arise and go to the Body. It is time for the people of God to repent of our hard and fearful hearts. The disciples of Jesus must take a stand for the injustices happening in the inner city. It will take more than a trip once a year to clean up a neighborhood. It will take partnerships and relationships. It will take resources. Restoration and redemption of the cities will take something altogether unseen to this point by the current generations of believers. Forging a way for the youth to be free from violence will require the sacrifice of a way of life; but then again, we have always been told that we will find our life in death.
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