Rev. Rumph is also president of Gary's Interfaith Clergy Association and a board member of Gary's Tenpoint Coalition. Describe the challenges Gary presents to ministry. We face the danger of mistrust between church and state, when we're at a juncture that will take state and church working together to deal with the diabolical situations facing Gary's communities. My prayer is for comradeship between church and government. The state, by itself, fails to understand situations when it thinks money alone will solve problems.
Spiritual forces are often the root problems.
Only the forces of church and state working together will eradicate many of the critical social problems facing Gary's neighborhoods. I see cooperation in some areas. But in other cases City Hall may be leery of working together with churches because they don't see the desired unity within the church. There's fragmentation within the body of Christ. If Satan can keep the church from being unified for action, then the enemy has won.