Love and Power are twin concepts. In fact, they are siamese twins. The work or effect of love is empowerment. Power is merely Love in action. Only lovers seek power – Lovers of self, family, community, nation or whatever. Love preserves, protects and empowers.
Any invocation of Love that does not also consider power and its use is meaningless or worse irresponsible. And any invocation of power ignorant of or insensitive to its beneficiaries or recipients, their needs and desires, is not only blind and ineffective, but potentially very destructive.
To quote Dr. Cornell West, “Tenderness is what Love looks like in private. Justice is what love looks like in public.” Christians, who make claim to relationship with and representation of a God of Perfect Love, also proclaimed to be the Almighty cannot ignore or be insensitive to issues of social justice, unless intending both to make public mockery of the Name of their God as well as qualify themselves as the laughingstock of their enemies. As I have repeated and continue to repeat so often these days, using the words of Jesus as my authority – Salt that has lost its savour is worthy only to be discarded, rejected and trodden underfoot.
My sister in Christ, Jessica Ortiz is embarking on a journey to ensure that the Church in Canada keeps focus on the prize and is not lulled into a state of stupor in these critical times. I recommend her support to all my brothers and sisters in Christ especially in the GTA area.
My prayer is that the event, Call and Response, (please click for details, mark the date in your calendar and purchase tickets from now) would be more than mere symbolic gesture but anointed by the Spirit of God to represent the Vision and Voice of God, His Lightning and Thunder in the Canadian church, signs of His Glorious Presence ensuring that His House remains a House of prayer for all nations and does not suffer the same fate of the Jerusalem Temple which refused to be informed or reformed by Him, and notwithstanding the best efforts of her zealots, today her remains, with not one stone left standing on the other, like the fallen bones of Ezekiel’s army scattered in the valley, bear testimony to Ichabod – a place where the Glory once was, but has since departed.
YeKengalé 