Anne Graham-Lotz: Four Ways Christians Can Help Their Communities Amid Racial, Social Unrest

Leah Marieann Klett : Jul 28, 2016
Gospel Herald

"Please. Don't do nothing. Do something! Pray. Pick up your [spiritual] Sword. Pursue righteousness. And proclaim Jesus until He comes."

[Gospel Herald] Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of Billy Graham and sister of Franklin Graham, has shared the four ways Christians can help bring peace and reconciliation to a country currently riddled with racism, violence, and injustice. (Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

"As I've read reports of shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota ... as I've shared the agony of a nation that is reeling from the cold-blooded, deliberate, pre-planned murder of police officers ... as I've watched the eruption of anarchy in the streets ... as I've wept with grief almost deeper than words but expressed by a silent scream in my heart ... I've asked the Lord, What are we to do," Lotz wrote on her website Monday.
 
"Is there anything ordinary, good people can do?" she asked before sharing four things Christians can do to help their local communities.
 
"First, we can pray. Paul challenges us in Ephesians 6:18. ... With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying. ... It's time for you and me to establish a set-aside time of consistent, daily prayer," she wrote.
 
Next, she said Christians need to "pick up the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God, according to Ephesians 6:17," which she said should encourage people to spend daily, consistent time with the Bible.
 
"But don't just read it. Apply it. Obey it. Live it out," she wrote.

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