When we look outside and see so much pain and turmoil, it’s hard to know how to respond.

We see pain and anger in the black community over centuries of dehumanization and discrimination. We see good police officers, sympathetic to protestors and rightly angered about the abhorrent killing of George Floyd, vilified or attacked by people intent on instigating more violence. We see people we love fighting, unfriending each other, or exposing things about themselves we wish we didn’t know.

It’s overwhelming.

Sometimes Christians, when we’re unsure of what to say, resort to generic platitudes about how much we need God.

Our nation must turn to Jesus, we write on social media. He’s the answer to all our problems!

Of course, nothing is truer. Jesus is the ultimate answer. Our nation desperately needs him. The danger in offering that statement, however, is that we may not be prepared to follow it to its conclusion.