"How do we regain our faith?...we have to make Jesus a priority...have the spiritual depth to encounter Jesus anywhere [beyond the walss of the church]...wherever I go I may encounter God." Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III @TrinityChicago @om3 @docbsett @chellsettle
"Too many of us have a proxy relationship with God...it's based on someone else's relationship because we never built one for ourselves...sometimes the relationship with God dies when the proxy dies" Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III #Luke2:41-52 @docbsett @TrinityChicago @om3 @chellsettle
"Churchy folks are dangerous...they are in a worship state but lose sight of Jesus...they've done their obligations in church but Jesus isn't present...if you do it enough, absence becomes acceptance" Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III #Luke2:41-52 @TrinityChicago @docbsett @chellsettle
"It might be necessary for some of us to lose our religion to gain our faith."
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III #Luke2:41-52. @TrinityChicago @om3 @docbsett @chellsettle
"You have to have the audacity of pre-mature praise...praise God in the future-tense...praise God for what hasn't happened yet." Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III @chellsettle @docbsett @om3 @TrinityChicago#JumplikeJohn#Luke1:39-45
"When God blesses you, you've got to be willing to hook up with someone from another generation...children and elders belong with each other...when elders and children are together, both [bodies and spirits] receive something." Rev .Dr. Otis Moss III @docbsett @chellsettle @om3
"If you have a blessing, you have a burden balancing your blessing every time...blessings and burdens go hand-in-hand. You cannot have one without the other." Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III @chellsettle @om3 @docbsett @TrinityChicago#Luke1:39-45
"The call of a prophetic community is to know that not everyone is responsible, but everyone is accountable...everybody is accountable to change a situation." - Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III @_CharlesPreston @docbsett @chellsettle @om3 @TrinityChicago#Micah3:5-12
"What happens on Tuesday is an echo of what has happened in the past." - Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
Study history in the period 1875 to 1877. @om3 @DigiPastor @docbsett #Micah3:5-12
"In a decade or so, 'democracy' may be a dream that your children speak of in the past tense." - Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III #Micah3:5-12. @docbsett @chellsettle
Sure. We can sing to Jesus.
But Jesus never asked us to do that.
Jesus asked us to feed the hungry, to give them water, to welcome the stranger, to clothe them, to visit the prisoner, to care for the sick.
Jesus didn’t want songs.
Jesus wants justice.
The writer of Lamentations is addressing collective (community) anxiety, not personal. She is writing about the state of her community under the regime of an autocratic, narcissistic leader. @TrinityChicago @om3
" If you want to get through your pain, you have to go through your pain...learn how to lean into your lament." Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III @om3 @TrinityChicago#Lamentations3:19-26
The writer of Lamentations is addressing collective (community) anxiety, not personal. She is writing about the state of her community under the regime of an autocratic, narcissistic leader. @chellsettle @docbsett @_CharlesPreston