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Lament
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Soong-Chan Rah argues that the deeply rooted triumphalism and exceptionalism in the American society are causing the absence of lament in the American churches. Churches today must not only recognize the need for lament, but also practice the discipline of lament both within and beyond the walls of the church.
Taken from Dr. Walter Brueggemann's DVD lectures on the Psalms. Brueggemann speaks here on prayer summoning God to do things He might not otherwise do. Lecture 2, Disorientation: Faith in the Depths. DVDs available at http://www.mikoproductions.ca/store.html
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Weve seen mothers bury sons | And were begging You to come | Oh, oh, oh | The broken fill our towns | And the hopeless shout aloud | Oh, oh, oh || We cannot wait | We cannot wait | Oh, we cannot wait || When the poor are
“For the beneficiaries of white privilege, lament involves the difficult task of acknowledging their individual and communal complicity in past and present racial injustices. It entails a hard acknowledgement that one has benefited from another’s burden and that one’s social advantages have been purchased at a high cost to others. Here lament takes the form of a forthright confession of human wrongdoing in the light of God’s mercy.”