“Lord, in your mercy….” Jesus teaches a disquieting lesson to his disciples in the first century and still today: where there is suffering, rather than assign blame to someone, examine one’s own life, and change. (Lk 13:1-4) For generations, our Palestinian Christian sisters and brothers have suffered under discrimination in Israel and a military occupation of Palestine. As individual Christians, as local churches, as a small but influential denomination, and as American citizens, what has been our part in their suffering and what is God calling us to change? Brothers and sisters, let us pray that at this summer’s Kansas City Convention, when we examine our lives before God and our Palestinian siblings, we will consider the Resolution on Israel-Palestine, and change. “Lord, in your mercy.”
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