“Who Do We Think We Are?”

By David Clark Brand - Posted at The Christian Observer:

“Who Do We Think We Are?”
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court [1]

“ . . . fire and hail, snow and mist,
stormy wind fulfilling his word!”
Psalm 148:8 ESV

Martin Luther King’s assassination was the top of the news when a young man arrived at John Knox Church. Decades later he is witnessing a political phenomenon who both baffles and annoys the media and the politicians. Some are saying Donald Trump’s braggadocio is unstoppable, leaving challengers in humiliation and helplessness. By contrast, in 2015, the currently-celebrated, self-identified radical Marxist, Angela Davis, a prominent figure in America’s 1960s and 70s social/political upheaval, reflected on the civil rights marches of the 1960s. She insisted that “the women did the work and the men got the credit,” and that in the “movement” as it exists today, there is no place for male Martin Luther King types! [2]

Who would have believed that America’s mainline Protestant denominations would become the centers of social transformation such as we are witnessing today?

Indeed, “if the salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. [3]

Meanwhile, the man who insists he can fix everything declares himself a Presbyterian!

History records the leadership of an original Presbyterian, “The Thundering Scot,” John Knox (ca.1505-1572) who took the Reformation teachings of John Calvin to his native Scotland in a tumultuous age.

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