Black Charlotte pastor says church must be ‘healing agent’ for U.S. racial divide
While legislators are running to get new laws on the books, protesters are preparing more picket signs and pundits are busy talking the issue away on national television, one Charlotte pastor says it’s the church that is the “healing agent” the U.S. needs to solve the country’s widening racial divide.
“I believe that the church can be a healing agent, that the church can be a classroom to teach the world what unity and love looks like because of the gospel of Jesus Christ,” Derwin L. Gray, pastor of Transformation Church, told TheBlaze on the heels of the police-involved shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.
However, Gray argued that, before Christians can make the case for a unified nation, the church needs to come to grips with the reality that “the most segregated institution in America is the church of Jesus Christ.” And the data backs up his assertion. According to a 2015 study, 86 percent of...