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05/05/08
By: Dr. Charles Nestor
 Iwas
invited, as the Senior Fellow for Ethics and Public Policy of the National Clergy
Council, to be a guest panelist on the Fox affiliate, WTVT 13 in Tampa, Florida.
This was my fourth appearance on this station, which reaches a huge audience in
the Tampa Bay region of the Florida gulf coast. Appearing on the panel with me
were two African-Americans, an attorney and a pastor. The focus of the program,
"My Turn" a half-hour midday live news oriented opinion show, was recent
statements by the Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, pastor of the Trinity United Church
of Christ in Chicago and formerly the pastor to Senator Barack Obama and his family.
This media appearance as a representative of the NCC gave me the opportunity
to give a clear witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to define Liberation
Theology for the viewing audience. This theology, birthed in Latin America during
the 1950's has Marist roots with a thin veneer of Christian language to make it
palatable to some within the Christian church. It focuses on typical communist
themes of class struggle and economic oppression. The Afro-centric version, advocated
by Dr. Wright and his mentor, James Cone of Union Seminary in New York, includes
not only political resistance but violence including murder as an acceptable means
of social change.
Biblical Christians will find little that resembles the New Testament teaching
of living at peace with all men, submission to ruling authorities as ministers
of God, and being salt and light even within a pagan persecuting cultures. The
New Testament calls on believers to judge everything, holding fast to that which
is good, to be discerning of spiritual sources of various teachings, and to have
the conviction that there is but one gospel and only one truth delivered to the
saints. Holding forth the Word of Life is a scared calling which we of the National
Clergy Council take seriously and aspire to practice humbly with the prayerful
support of God's people.
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