DALLAS - Park Cities Baptist Church has played a key role in this devastated city's healing this week, and the message from the pulpit today was one of grace, unity and love.
"It's been a tragic week," said Associate Senior Pastor Miller Cunningham. "Our hearts are broken. We've seen the senseless murder of five Dallas police officers. We've seen in graphic form the depth of racial division that exists in our community."
He led the congregation in prayer for the victims, the injured, and for the family of slain gunman Micah Xavier Johnson.
"In a time like this it's important to remember, love always conquers hate, always," Cunningham said. "Light always destroys darkness."
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The church's senior pastor, Jeff Warren, is on sabbatical and didn't preach Sunday. Instead the congregation at the 10:45 a.m. traditional worship service heard from Park Cities' Minister to Singles Travis Cook - who happens to be a Marietta native and Kennesaw State University graduate.
Credit: Jennifer Brett
Credit: Jennifer Brett
"It's not an easy Sunday to lead worship," said Cook, who served for five years as a U.S. Army Reserve chaplain. His message stressed the importance of unity, humility and grace.
The week's tragedies provided grim sermon topics in churches in Baton Rouge, La. and St. Paul, Minnesota, where the police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile touched off protests around the country, including the one in Dallas that ended with five officers being killed by sniper fire
Credit: Jennifer Brett
Credit: Jennifer Brett
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