Good morning! It’s Sunday, we’re in South Carolina, and Pete Buttigieg is attending service at the First Baptist Church of James Island here in Charleston, SC. Six days until South Carolina’s First in the South Primary. 
Pete Buttigieg is sitting in the first row here at First Baptist Church of James Island for today’s Sunday Worship— seated next to him is campaign surrogate Ryann Richardson. They’re singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
Pastor Charlie L. Murray asks visitors to stand to greet them.
"Good morning! Welcome to Wakanda. Y’all know I had to get that one in. To all of our first-time visitors, we welcome you to First Baptist Church, where we believe where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
"Good morning! Welcome to Wakanda. Y’all know I had to get that one in. To all of our first-time visitors, we welcome you to First Baptist Church, where we believe where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
Pete Buttigieg opens remarks this Sunday morning at First Baptist Church of James Island, telling those gathered for Sunday prayer, "I am here to introduce myself a little bit, and share what I think is at stake in the choice South Carolina will make less than a week from today."
Buttigieg says it's "humbling in the middle of Black History Month, to think about what it means to stand before African American voters &ask them for their vote. Because I know that that vote is not just an expression of a political preference. It is something that was hard won"
Pete Buttigieg tells those gathered, "I will leave preaching to the Pastor, but I do want to do a little bit of reflecting on a bit of Matthew," before reading Matthew, 23:11, which says, "And whoever exalts himself will be humbled. And whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Pete Buttigieg says, "When you are running for president, you think a lot about exaltation, and you should be thinking a lot about humility too...running for president, at its best is an exercise in humbling yourself."
Buttigieg touts his record as mayor, but admits, "the story of the city that had a lot to celebrate & even feel exalted about, but also a place where we have been & I have been humbled. Humbled by the persistence of the forms of institutional racism that did not bypass our city."
Buttigieg tells the congregation here, "My point standing before you is not to claim that I understand more than I do, but rather to promise, as the scripture says not to lean on to my own understanding too much, but to do a lot of listening along the way."
Pete Buttigieg joins the congregation at First Baptist Church of James Island in Charleston, SC, for Sunday worship, six days until the South Carolina primary.
