Looking for Justice in All the Wrong Places - Audio
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I'm looking for justice in all the wrong places. That's based on looking for love in all the wrong places, which is a song that I've never actually heard the original version of. But when I was young, my parents had this-- back when they had video cassettes-- of Saturday Night Live commercials, fake commercials. And there was one where Eddie Murphy plays buckwheat from the little rascals. And he does a play on that, which I thought was really funny. I should probably listen to the actual song, though, before I bring it up here. And the reason, of course, is, yeah, we've got an election coming up. It's happening on Tuesday. It's pressing. It's right on our minds. For some of you, it's been all you've been thinking about for the last several months. For some of us, it's just off on the-- it's sort of outside the radar, but we're aware that it's happening. And we know that it's important. We know that a big change is going to take place. And we're aware of the other. And we're kind of wondering, a lot of the time, what it is that we're supposed to be doing with the political process. If you're not aware-- I mean, we're actually living in one of the more frightening times-- I mean, not the most frightening time in our public's history. But it is a frightening time. If you look at the statistics, they're staggering about the way that people interact with or think about their government these days. I just have a couple of examples. We've been taking data since the 1970s, where a Gallup has been asking Americans what they think about government and their faith, how much they trust or have confidence in their political institutions. So look at this, in the 1970s, people in the United States were asked, how much confidence do you have in the presidency-- not the president, not this one-- but the presidency. And people said 52% either said that they had quite a lot or a great deal of confidence in the presidency. This year, that number had dropped to 36%. 36% of the people-- not Obama or Bush or Clinton or Trump, but just the idea of the president. Only 36% of the people in this country
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Teaching on Ephesians 6:5-9, Pastor Tom depicts the church as God's "laboratory of justice", where His model of justice is lived out, ultimately impacting secular culture (e.g., abolition, civil rights.)