Almost speechless October 4, 2007
Posted by Zack in : Uncategorized , trackbackIt’s too much! What I’m seeing here is just too much to describe.
This stadium is full of eleven thousand mostly white suburban, Republican evangelical Christian pastors and church leaders. And here’s a little bit of what they’ve come from all over the country to hear:
… We’re to vote for the poor, we’re to vote for the peacemakers, we’re to vote for Jesus. …
And here are those eleven thousand “confessing” aloud sins of war, judgment and greed at the close of Shane Claiborne’s sermon/talk, as he led them in a “Litany if Resistance”:
Please listen to the clip. But here’s a little bit of it transcribed:
With governments that kill…
…we will not comply.
With the theology of empire…
…we will not comply.
With the business of militarism…
…we will not comply.
With the hoarding of riches
…we will not comply.
With the dissemination of fear
…we will not comply.
But today we pledge our allegiance to the kingdom of God…
…we pledge allegiance.
To the peace that is not like Rome’s…
…we pledge allegiance.
To the Gospel of enemy love
…we pledge allegiance.
To the poor and the broken…
…we pledge allegiance.
The sound clip is just the tail end of a long incredible litany that Shane wrote with friends Jim Loney and Brian Walsh (who we interviewed in our first real post on this blog—I’m trying to get a full copy of the text from him).
Above is a picture of the stadium as it recited the litany. The words were projected up on the screen. The words on the screen in the shot below were: From the idolatry of nationalism, deliver us.
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