EDITOR – The present situation in South Africa is in crisis and the church is irrelevant.
The church is silent and divided through the politics of hate and the church is becoming a passive and indifferent entity through ignorance and denial.
Church and servant leaders need to ask:
- What causes the confusion, division, destruction, chaos, poverty, disease, and the ignorance?
- What comes to steal, destroy, rob, kill, and destroy all that stands for truth, justice and righteousness?
- What happens when we trust those that actually promise us freedom are those who embrace the philosophy of man alone?
The church is also racially, politically, culturally, tribally and even doctrinally divided. Leaders don’t understand the Bible is not there to debate but to read understand and obey.
There are more than 121 different denominational groups and more than 75,865 churches. South Africa will not recover from the present crisis with just a mass prayer meeting only, unless there’s a radical transformation in the way things have been done traditionally in the church. The church needs to get united, organised and regulated and this takes vision, wisdom and a leadership that understands clearly the challenges and threats and also the knowledge of the social, economic and political challenges and needs.
It’s time for a spiritual war.
PASTOR ROY NAIR
Durban South City Forum
