A friend of ours, Greg Lucas, is a police officer, and he writes in to ask this, Pastor John,

what can a white Christian police officer who loves Jesus and his fellow man do to make

a God honoring difference in the race issues facing our country?

I'd say to Greg, why am I teaching you anything about this?

And I'm the one who ought to be sending it at your feet at this point.

In fact, I really do believe we need to sit at the feet of Godly policemen right now and

have them talk to us because we may, John Piper may be a bit naive in things that I write

and say about my reaction to police, but he beat me to the question.

So perhaps I have to say something.

My respect for Greg Lucas is enormous, especially because of his care for kids with disabilities

and his own faithfulness as a dad in his book, wrestling with an angel.

Greg is a thoughtful, caring, fair-minded dad and police officer, and of course there

are thousands like him, and he's a Christian, and so the way he posed the question comes

out of that, can a white officer who loves Jesus and his fellow man make a God honoring

difference in the race issues?

And the answer is he can, and maybe even though I'm saying this with great hesitancy because

I've never been a policeman, I've never stared down anybody with a knife or a gun or

anything that would make my heart beat so hard, I'd probably just collapse in the moment.

I'm going to say some things and then expect the officers who listen to take them and do

whatever tweaking and adjusting is necessary to give them a flavor of reality that I've

never walked through.

So here's my first suggestion.

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