Sometimes…often…usually, there is little more to say than that which has already been said. I find cause to re-post this message. I don’t know how many times this makes. The original post was during another Presidential administration. No words hve been changed. We substitute the name George Floyd for the other names once prominent for a season and now forgotten. We substitute Minneapolis for the cities once set ablaze and now smoldering. What needs to be said has already been said.
This short essay ends with a call for a return to holiness. a return to the Church. On this re-posting, I must add something different. Anyone desiring to return to the churches in North America on this Pentecost Sunday will find them padlocked. The people hiding in fear. Its voice silent. We never should have locked the doors to the church.
Why is it important to gather as a church? Today is one reason why.

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