BOB RAMBO
Hi! I’m Bob Rambo, Lead Pastor at Central United Methodist Church. A few months ago in Jackson, Mississippi, a group of white teens went looking for a black person to “mess with.” They found an auto worker named James C. Anderson, beat him up, and then ran him down with a pickup truck, killing him – a TERRIBLE crime.
The District Attorney in Hinds County pressed for the death penalty in this case. But the family of James Anderson shocked everyone by asking the state NOT to pursue the death penalty. James Anderson’s sister said that while they supported punishing those who did this to the full extent of the law, they wanted JUDGMENT to be tempered with MERCY. According to the family, they OPPOSE seeking the death penalty because “Our Savior Jesus Christ rejected the old way of an eye for an eye and taught us instead to turn the other cheek…. We can do no less….”
As children of God, we are called to be people of “mercy”. Mercy is not just compassion for those in need, but compassion for those who don’t deserve it. That’s how God loves us. That’s how we are to love and live with each other.
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