Revival-Minded Black Pastors Denounce ‘Demonic’ Black Lives Matter Movement
The Black Lives Matter movement is promoting a “demonic” message, say some black pastors, and they will not stand for members of their community to be put in harm’s way anymore.
“Let me speak with this admonition. I don’t know everything they are saying; I know what I heard. With that proviso, what I have heard has not been good. What I have heard, to me, is divisive and demonic,” Bishop E.W. Jackson says. “We as Christians know that God created all of us, all of our lives matter, including the lives of unborn babies, they matter too. When you have people saying, ‘You can’t say all lives matter, we are not going to hear that,’ that tells me there is something very, very wrong there.”
However, Jackson and other black pastors are using their influence to try to spark revival among their communities.
“America desperately needs another Great Awakening, and pastors and churches are key,” Jackson says. “We cannot expect America to wake up if the church is asleep. To this end, we are launching The Christian Awakening Project, which will initially consist of Summits of Pastors and ministry leaders held in strategic locations around Virginia and eventually in other states as well.”
The Christian Awakening Project is part of STAND, or Staying True to America’s National Destiny.
According to CNS News, the initiative will use the private sector to help rescue America’s inner cities by teaching youth Christian values such as the importance of marriage in raising children, as well equipping and training young people to have successful careers.
To do this, STAND‘s website says they will begin the fight for the right to life in the womb and carry the battle through to marriage, so procreation can begin the cycle once more—this time on the foundation of God’s Word.
The message that all God’s children deserve the right to life appears to be contradictory to the Black Lives Matter campaign, which has recently targeted police forces and was labeled as a “hate group.”
“Certainly, this pitting against law enforcement I am tremendously concerned about that,” says Pastor Leon Threatt, STAND’s national vice president. “And we have witnessed that, and I find it quite disturbing that they would use language that would sanction and authorize the killing of law enforcement personnel. This is tragic and shameful that they would use such language.
“I witnessed on a news clip not long ago where they were having a Black Lives Matter march and chanting ‘Death to the pigs!’ This kind of language is destructive and unacceptable.”
So these pastors are taking a stand, aiming to unite all races so we can see revival in America.
