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are calling for violence as a way to peace,
are calling for racial superiority as a route to brotherhood
and sisterhood,
are calling for prisons and jails as the journey to freedom and
security.
So maybe Larry Lonchar does, on the basis of laws of the state of Georgia
and the will of the people, deserve to die.
But, I come to you today, in the name of the one who created the heavens
and the earth, who took the raging waters and the terrifying winds, who
stood on the edge of chaos and the abyss, who walked through the valley
of the shadow of death—and feared no evil—who was before the sun was
in the sky by day and before the moon was in the sky by night. This God
said,
“Let there be light.”
And there was light.
Mighty mountains rose up on the flat plains.
Rivers jumped into their channels.
Angels began to sing on high.
And this God, I’m talking about the Great God Almighty—
Jehovah—
Yahweh—
This, our Creator and Redeemer, filled the land with love, drenched the waters
with mercies, filled our bodies and spirits with the image of God.
And then said, “I come on behalf of those who are undeserving.”
The government may help the deserving poor, the model prisoner, the “A+”
student; but the church stands with the undeserving poor.
The business community may help those who have potential to achieve; but
the Body of Christ bends over the Body of the Broken Ones lying in the ditch,
passed out in the gutter.
The greatest heresy of today is the false platitude mouthed over and over
and over again in this city and often in the church:
NO!
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.
Hospitality to the Imprisoned ˜ 187