Day after day, our metropolitan community of 850,000 is deeply divided by unforgiveness. Our citizens hold something against one another. Their prejudices are strongly fortified and powerfully erected. We have a virulent class system and deep racial divisions. We live in the midst of powerful prejudices based on religion.
Gender is a constant issue.
In metropolitan Richmond, even geography is a major division. If this city is ever to become an effectively integrated and righteous community, a lot of repentance is needed. Repentance is the prelude to forgiveness. The repentance deals with the things we have been unwilling or unable to understand in one another. Repentance precedes love.