Dear White American Pastor,

I need your help. I’m doing a lot, though I know not enough, to use my position of power and influence as a white person, to speak against the injustices happening in our country. Specifically, Asian-American hate and the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Daunte Wright, and Adam Toledo. And I wondered if you’d consider doing the same?

On Sunday, when you address your congregation, there may be a splattering of people of color sitting before you. They will be listening, hoping, praying, that you will use your platform to speak up for them. I’m not suggesting you bash the police. We all know there are so many good policemen and women keeping us safe. We don’t hear their stories enough. But I am suggesting you grieve with people of color and stand against white supremacy.

I’m sure when you prepare your sermons, the thought goes through your head, “Were Jesus here in the flesh, what would He say this week?” And I strongly believe He would stand up this Sunday and grieve this week’s killings of Daunte and Adam.

Jesus’ church membership would be diverse, not because He has black and brown people on the worship team and 1 or 2 on staff. But because He regularly talks about the sin of white supremacy and Satan’s non-stop effort to keep us angry and upset with each other as he continues to attack with great fervor, the image of the Imago Dei.

I know you’re worried about making people mad. You’re fearful they will leave your church and take their tithe with them. But my concern dear pastor, is if you don’t address the racism in our country, if week after week you stick with your prescribed message series, and if you continue to say social justice issues need to be discussed outside the church, as America continues to “brown”, your church will die.

Yes, if you do things different, your membership will drop. But you will make God famous.

I love the Church and I know you do too. But people are watching you specifically. They are waiting for you to speak. And each week we give them a reason to hate the big “C” Church more, when they see the God of the Bible commanding His leaders and disciples to follow in His stead, yet we refuse to do so.

Pastor, you speak to so many each Sunday and have an influence that could change not only your church, but the image of God for non-Believers too. And so I need your help. Because what if God has placed you in your position for such a time as this?

“For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14 NIV)