Why is the church silent on the politics of hate?

THE present situation in South Africa is a crisis and the church is irrelevant.

The church is silent and divided through the politics of hate.

The church has also become a passive and indifferent entity through ignorance and denial. The church and servant leaders need to ask:

■What causes the confusion, division, destruction, chaos, poverty, disease and ignorance?

■ What comes to steal, destroy, rob, kill and destroy all that stands for truth, justice and righteousness?

■What happens when those we trust who promise us freedom are those who embrace the philosophy of man alone?

The church is also racially, politically, culturally, tribally and even doctrinally divided.

Leaders don’t understand that the Bible is not there to debate but to read, understand and obey.

There are more than 121 different denominational groups and more than 75 865 churches.

South Africa will not recover from the present crisis from mass prayer meetings only unless there is a radical transformation in the way things have been done traditionally in the church.

The church needs to get united, organised and regulated.

This takes vision, wisdom and a leadership that clearly understands the challengets and threats and also a knowledge of the social, economic and political challenges and needs. It’s time for a spiritual war.