More Dangerous Than a Trump Presidency?

What would be worse than a Trump Presidency, much worse?  Something that it already damaging America.

An American evangelical church that is not preaching and practicing the full, radical kingdom of God gospel of justice---a Jubilee justice that releases the oppressed.  For 400 years, the white church, with a few exceptions, has failed to preach and practice the kingdom of God, failed to repent and change, failed to end ethnocentrism and oppression.

America needs "a small body [a team] of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their [kingdom of God] mission can alter the course of history."  So says Gandhi.

David Halberstam (The Children) described the Nashville Eight who desegregated Nashville and continued the stalled Freedom Rides in this way:  "But these young people were like elite combat troops, well-trained [4-5 months], battle ready, completely willing to accepts the risks [even death]; they were mentally, physically and psychologically prepared"  John Lewis was also spiritually prepared; as a teenager over the radio, Lewis heard a sermon by Martin Luther King on the kingdom of God (beloved community).  This one sermon was a turning point for Lewis; for the rest of his life incarnating the kingdom became his mission.  He was beaten and jailed many times for the cause.

When Jesus Christ himself preached and practiced the kingdom of God as justice, called his fellow Jews to repent and change their ways of ethnocentrism and oppression, the religion-politico-economic elite rejected both him and his message.

They preferred their current ethnic superiority and economic privilege; God's judgment soon followed; the Romans destroyed the Temple.  Will America's white evangelicals continue to act like a religion-politico-economic elite or will they respond like the twelve disciples?

We need a team, a group, a movement to rebuild the white evangelical church---make them more biblical than American.  Could the NAE or the Justice Conference or ?? be that organization?  Only if they go deeper biblically in four areas:

1.  Develop both a theology of oppression and a strategy to end systems of oppression.  Read Nehemiah five.

2.  Tie the Messianic passages from Isaiah with Jesus' statement to "Repent, for the kingdom of God is here!"  Also Mt. 6:33 (NEB):  "Set your mind on God's kingdom and his justice above everything else."

3.  Rejusticize the English NT; tie to the OT Sabbatical/Jubilee laws, Lev. 25.

4.  Create a theology of society based on the Spirit and the kingdom of God; Acts 1:1-8; 8:12; 28:23 & 31.  Also Romans 14:17: "The kingdom of God is justice, shalom and joy in the Holy Spirit."

Recently on IPT, I watched an excellent documentary on the American struggle over faith and fear, guns and violence.  This was followed by a panel discussion by ministers, theologians and activists title Faith and Guns; the panel were supposed experts in the field.

Only in America---awash in guns and racism---could this discussion have taken place.  America is also awash with a half-biblical theology.

Much was said about Jesus; but little on the kingdom of God.
Much was said about love, but little about justice.

In America, we feel free to be very selective---accept or reject what we choose from the Scriptures.
But this makes a mockery of the Bible.  As disciples we are required to follow both Jesus and the kingdom of God, both love and justice.