Clergy today are constantly moving, yet getting little done, said the Rev. Stephanie Crowder, Nashville, in an opening address. We need to dig deep roots into God's soil. We need to be rooted and grounded. Likewise, without good roots pastors cannot get the nourishment needed to carry out their ministries.
All life needs water to live. . . .
We're in need of deep watering that not even a lawn care service can provide. The water Christ gives lasts beyond the trouble church officers can cause or the pain a teetering marriage can bring. There are many, many sisters and brothers we have lost to the streets. We have an obligation to use that water for the revolution. If every black church in America would use that living water for revolution, for economic development and for political empowerment, then there will be a revelation, Jackson said.