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Bevin's (excellent) call to prayer walks

Friday, June 2, 2017 7:25

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Here’s some cynical coverage, but the C-J’s coverage of this was refreshingly respectful (check out the article and video). Bevin calls people to prayer (walks) and more– in particular, “involvement”. (It’s also interesting and cool that he provides guidance on how to do this well!) There are clearly public policy issues at hand too. But Bevin’s call is unlikely to hurt, quite likely to help, and arguably, the best approach to the problems that plague Louisville’s West End.

Paraphrasing something I like from C.S. Lewis on prayer– whatever prayer does in the divine economy, it changes our hearts. As any other discipline, the practice works to change mind, body, and soul in positive ways.

That’s one reason why Christians are commanded to pray for their leaders in I Timothy 2:1-2. (Of course, Jesus tells us to pray for our “enemies”– and sometimes those are the same folks!). In fact, if I don’t pray for my leaders, I can’t criticize them. This prevents me from wanting to throttle Bush II, Obama, Clinton, Trump, McConnell, Pelosi, Reid, Birthers, today’s Hysterics, and the other partisan enablers who make all of this lovely garbage possible.

In this context, prayer would be expected to “get people (more) involved”. (I know Sam is fond of a narrow interpretation of the passage where Jesus critiques some public expressions of prayer. But in this context, prayer walks are a likely improvement over mere prayer.) Meeting people, building relationships, enhancing empathy, actually doing work (!) in distressed communities. Why isn’t this something to be applauded? More broadly, what if even a modest proportion of professing Christians and self-styled liberals got involved in the West End?

Source: http://schansblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/bevins-excellent-call-to-prayer-walks.html

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