Texas Pastor Matt Chandler of the Village Church rebuked churches for being silent on matters of race, in a message on Sunday.
According to Faithwire, on Sunday, Chandler abruptly stopped his sermon to express his disappointment in the church’s overarching response to racial injustice.
“When you say, ‘Hey, we’re not going to get involved, let’s just preach the Gospel to that’ — which by the way I find so hypocritical,” Chandler began. “You don’t just preach the Gospel on sex trafficking; you don’t just preach the Gospel on the issue of life and abortion. No, you act!”
“It’s like this brain-broke disjoint that’s got us acting absurd and then critiquing this movement as being evil and dark when we have given up our inheritance!” Chandler exclaimed. “You cannot point out all the flaws in this current movement while you have abandoned the place that we were meant to play,” Chandler asserted, noting the church’s prominent role in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
“You cannot point out all the ‘well this means this, and this believes this, and that’s this and that’s this’ and ignore the sorrow and lament of 12 to 13 million image-bearers in our country!” he continued. “You can’t do that!”
Chandler then urged for churches to “mourn with those who mourn.”
“And yes, there are demonic and evil ideologies at play, but that’s where…
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