Burn everything down. We are as lost from our own gospel as we've ever been while screaming at everyone else that we are the only ones "found." Our women are abused and unprotected, and our "sanctuaries" are nothing of the sort. Why would anyone listen to any of us?
The amount of repentance necessary to EVER regain 1 ounce of credibility as an evangelical community is just staggering. Look to our ditches: women, refugees, people of color, LGBTQ folks, immigrants, the poor. These are supposed to be our charges, instead they are our victims.
The emperor is standing stark naked in the public square screaming through a bullhorn than he is dressed in finery. Absurd. We have one path here: repentance. We need to shut our loud mouths & fall on our knees and repent to the Jesus we "love" and the people we've harmed.
Why are we having to convince our male leaders that women should be equally valued and their power is not at our expense? Why are we the least likely demographic to welcome refugees but the most likely to vote for Trump? We are lost. Any other version is a straight out lie.
You want spiritual leaders? Look to the ones mourning and grieving and repenting right now. Run as fast as you can from the ones defending and justifying and denying. Let the refining fires burn it all down, even if there is but a fraction left. At least it will be pure.
