But more than anything else we need a true revival that centers on Jesus Christ who famously said ‘if anyone would come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me’.   The road that Jesus is walking down doesn’t lead to either the Lincoln Memorial or  Dunbar High School, necessarily.   It leads to Golgotha and the death of self-serving, self-centered, selfish behavior of whatever sort.   It leads to the death of all our short-sighted parochialisms for God loves the world not just America, and that is why he sent his Son so that all of us, yes all of us, might have everlasting life, freedom from sin in Christ, and the happiness of the pursuit of God’s calling on our lives to make this world, including this country, better, not bitter.

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