Pastor and author David Platt has warned that churches today are “widening the racial divide” in the U.S., and said that pastors who refrain from addressing justice from the pulpit “will not be found faithful” before God.
Speaking at the Together for the Gospel conference in in Louisville, Kentucky, Platt, teaching pastor at McLean Bible Church in Vienna, Virginia, began by admitting, “I’ve failed to act as I ought on the issue of racism.”
“God has opened my eyes to blind spots in my life and my leadership and lack thereof in the Church on this issue,” he said. “God has revealed sinfulness to me that I had not seen. … I’m preaching tonight out of the overflow of my weakness in so many ways.”
Citing Amos 5:18–27, which reads in part: “Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light,” Platt urged pastors and church members to ask themselves: Have we been, or are we now, slow to speak and work against racial injustice around us?
“I am convinced that the answer to that question is a resounding yes,” Platt said. “Pastors…
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