My Comment on Andrew Draper's eNews Article

I'm in awe of what Andrew wrote, yet my comment is a little edgy in the CGGC context. I think it will be published, but in case,...

Thanks, Lance, for placing Andrew’s article on the CGGC blog.

What Andrew has written…WHO HE HAS BECOME…truly inspires me, and encourages me.

On Friday, a friend wrote to tell me that there was a guest article on your blog.

Early Saturday I read it and, in the moment, wrote, to my friend, my impressions of Andrew’s article.

As I’ve considered how I might comment on what Andrew has written and it occurs to me that I can’t recapture the honesty of that first moment.

I hope you’ll consider what I wrote then as a valid comment, suitable for the blog.

Here’s essentially what I wrote:

“I just read Andrew’s eNews article for what, I’m certain, will be the first of many times.

Amazing stuff!

I knew Andrew as a…teen. How he became the man who could think these things…and would WRITE them…is a testimony to the grace of God and to the power of a life given over to a walk in the Spirit.

Clearly, and most inspirationally, this man’s talk comes AFTER his walk.

What Andrew writes is not theory. Andrew is not writing aspirationally. He writes from the depth of his experience,…many years of experience.

I rejoice in his boldness. I can understand his pain.

As I read him, it strikes me that, in our body, Andrew has been born out of his time. His passion for racial justice would have been the norm in the Church of God’s movement days.

Oh, how we need to repent of who we are and what we have become. We need to value this sort passion.

We need to FOLLOW that.