On Pentecost Sunday Calebe Silva, a teenager in New Jersey, opened his church’s Zoom church service with a short reading from Isaiah, followed by a piercing lament over the grief and pain the African-American community is experiencing right now (in the wake of the protests over the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police).
Here, Calebe speaks for himself and speaks for his generation at the same time. Calebe shows the courage and vulnerability to “name” what so many other young people are feeling, and he does it in a way that honors both the horizontal truth (the challenges and fears facing so many) and the vertical truth (Jesus is good and kind). Please watch…
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