Jesus said to them, “My food is doing the will of him who sent me and finishing the work he has given me. Don’t you say, ‘Four months more and then comes the harvest’? But I tell you to open your eyes and look to the field—they are gleaming white, all ready for the harvest! The reaper is already being rewarded and getting in a harvest for eternal life, so that both sower and reaper may be glad together. For in this harvest the old saying comes true, ‘One man sows and another reaps.’ I have sent you to reap a harvest for which you never laboured; other men have worked hard and you have reaped the results of their labours.” (John 4:35 Phillips)
Rev Al Sharpton I know it's hard to look beyond one's own pain to see that of others. Ask yourself--how many "white guy" ministers or congregations would have the spiritual freedom to appreciate the above sermon?
As you are a man of the church, I would ask you to consider priorities and pray about where the mission field is urgently white for harvest--economic, political, or spiritual?
Where now is an emancipation proclamation most direly needed for the health and well-being of our nation?
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