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When the news broke this morning that an unthinkable act of racial violence had been committed inside of a Charleston, SC church, people all over the nation looked to Christian leaders for their reaction. At a time when Christians across America are coming together to offer support to those hurting in the midst of this tragedy, artists within Christian music community used their social media platform to offer messages of empathy, unity and hope.
The overall sentiment of Christian artists seemed to reflect the magnitude of emotion that the news of nine people killed during a prayer meeting evoked. Kari Jobe (@karijobe) said simply, “My heart is so heavy.”
Similarly, Lecrae (@lecrae) reflected, “Heavy, the weight of it all is heavy.” He went on to quote John 16:2-3 with his next reaction, tweeting, “Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.”
Reach Records artist and rapper KB (@kb_hga) tweeted, with his characteristic eloquence, “We can do more than pray but we can never do less than pray…heavy heart this morning for my people.” He added hashtags for Charleston as well as the ethnic cleansing of Haitians taking place in the Dominican Republic.
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