Brothers and sisters in Christ,

I’ve seen a lot of tactless stuff being posted by people on both sides of the political spectrum regarding the murder of Carlie Kirk.

Let’s take a moment to stop…

Let’s take a moment to stop spinning the narrative. Let’s take a moment to let our hearts break because a fellow human’s life was snuffed out so coldly. Let’s take a moment to weep and pray for a wife and children who had their father ripped from out of their lives. Let’s mourn the sinful brutality and violence of our culture. Let’s pray… really pray for our world as well as our complicity in it’s structures of sin and violence. And let’s confess the hardness of our own hearts.

We too often reflect our secular culture with it’s Machiavellian calculations and numbness to sin, when we are instead called to have hearts that look like our Lord’s. He didn’t calculate, he didn’t numb himself to our world’s brokenness; rather he took it in and wept over it (Lk. 19:41) and he also invites us to join him in weeping and praying over this broken world (Lk. 23:28-29).

So let’s pause to weep and pray. That is what Jesus would have done in this moment, and it is what he calls us to do.

In the love of Christ,
Rev. Eric Burrows-Stone

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