black church fires -Reply

MARY BURNETT (mburnett@mail.state.tn.us)
Mon, 08 Jul 1996 10:07:12 -0500




> You said:

>Like an individual who cannot solve a cancer 
>problem, an alcohol problem, or a drug problem
>by denying it, a nation cannot deal
>fundamentally with racism by denying its existence. 
>White people don't like to talk about racism 
>because it is ugly.
>Roger Wilkins

All of the problems listed above aren't really problems at all but symptoms
of a bigger problem.  Spiritually speaking when it all boils down to it the
problem is _sin_.  It is ***sin*** which causing these symptoms to
materialize.  You can send a person alcohol and drug rehab, you can
provide knowledge of the different cultural differences between the
races and have everyone apologizing for the atrocities of the past, you
can even give a person radiation treatments, _but_ if there hasn't been a
change in the individual's heart he or she will end up worse than what
he or she was before [when a spirit has gone out of a man it goes about
seeking a new home but when it doesn't find one it goes back to the
same place from where it came out and if the place isn't occupied by the
Holy Ghost then the spirit and seven more, more vile than the first one
enter in].  It takes the changing of the heart.

Jesus is the answer for the world today!  He is the only way.

Sister Mary