I'm sure you've quoted it, but have you actually read it?
It's from Hosea 4: 6, and the verse goes on to explain WHY the people are low on knowledge.
It's not because there are no leaders. It's not because there isn't a fresh package for the vision.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. BECAUSE you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; BECAUSE you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children."
Our people are dying from lack of knowledge because they have rejected the knowledge God has already given us. (The Bible! I'm talking about the Bible!)
Our clergy are spiritually dying from lack of knowledge because they have rejected God's Word as the authoritative source of knowledge.
Our children are ignent [spelling intentional] as all get out, spiritual orphans because WE, their parents and role models, have forgotten that God gave us rules--- on purpose, and that those rules still apply.
When you know better, you do better right? Well, what happens if you don't know? What happens if you don't want to?
Oh, that's right.
The people die.
---Anderson T. Graves
II is a writer, community organizer and consultant for education, ministry,
and rural leadership development.
Rev.
Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Miles Chapel CME Church in Fairfield, Alabama; executive director of the Substance Abuse
Youth Networking Organization (SAYNO); and
director of rural leadership development for the National Institute for Human
Development (NIHD).
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