Where 2.1 Billion Christians Go From Here
By Stephanie Walker Stradford and Eric Stradford, USMC Retired
PRAYER CHANGES THINGS! Bishop Sarah Frances Davis is the 124th elected, consecrated, bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in a succession plan dating back to July 1816. In her temporal economy (Feb. 4, 1948 - Nov. 9, 2013), she practiced Southern Christian Leadership from a uniquely endowed perspective.
AMWS, December 31, 2013, Church Universal – The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States counts 7,095,217,980 humans in the world according to its July 2013 estimates. One of our friends, a former CIA employee, has been hoping to connect with about 33% percent of the world population to tap into what he knows to be underutilized assets measured by a national debt of $17,248,088,481,989.88 .
Leutrell Osborne, Sr., author of the book, Black Man in the CIA, is a veteran of the U.S. Army. In addition to his now transparent past experiences among “spooks by the door,” Osborne has been reflecting on some past sins such as the infamous “COINTELPRO” that has brought him to self-actualization of his own mortality. Within a community of some 2.1 billion Christians, Osborne can identify with being “in the world, but not of the world.”
Absolution, the act of forgiving someone for having done something wrong or sinful, is just one value in a vault of Christian beliefs that Americans might discover having twice elected its first African American president. December 31, 2013 affords each of 2.1 billion Christians a chance to win a chance to “Heal America.”
In the process of awakening from a “Dream Deferred,” haves and have-nots are challenged by the choice and question, CHAOS OR COMMUNITY: Where do we go from here? Christians today have gotten far too comfortable attempting to “Google” the truth. There’s nothing wrong with search engines as long as search engineers are committed to truth in the results.
For most normal folks in the world, getting somewhere calls for a point of origin, a destination and a route. But the Christian journey, evidenced in the walk of The Right Reverend Sarah Frances Davis, The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The Right Reverend Richard Allen, and Pope Francis, suggests that where we go calls for a shared understanding of where we’ve been -- one might add, why it took as long as it did to get to a common starting point.
Pope Francis succeeded His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI not long after The Right Reverend Sarah Frances Davis visited with the Pope. In choosing the basic title, “Bishop of Rome,” Pope Francis may have set into motion a global movement for healing sick folk, feeding the hungry, and reinvesting Christian value into an inclusive vision of the future.
The process of healing nations of believers can be traced back 2000 years to a shared #ReasonForTheSeason. More recently, world leaders got to hear from one practitioner of Southern Christian Leadership. Their memory of her stated beliefs are now etched into the spirit of a global movement.
In October 2012, Bishop Davis, a native of Houston, TX, represented the World Methodist Counci and the African Methodist Episcopal Church as a guest of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI at the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, Italy.
The meeting held under the theme The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith, addressed the call of the Church to its original missionary goal and sought to rekindle the original fire in Christians worldwide, according to church sources.
This year in the United States, President Barack Obama awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom to The Reverend Dr. C.T. Vivian. As a result, three practitioners of “Southern Christian Leadership” have received presidential recognition for evidence-based intervention.
A team of social entrepreneurs, faith and community leaders are tapping into “Southern Christian Leadership” as an intervention for “Healing America.” A replicable service demonstration, developed in cooperation with the “beloved community” addresses the question, CHAOS OR COMMUNITY: Where do we go from here?
National Learn-2-Earn (L2E) partners seek to counter economic threats by creating economic opportunity. Any ministry, social enterprise or nonprofit organization of any size can partner on a seven-pillar approach to support their efforts in HEALING, FEEDING, HOUSING, LEARNING, EARNING, LIVING and GIVING where Americans live, learn, work and worship.
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