I am a Christian and my letter is not meant to hurt, shame or beat up on Christians but to get their response as to what Jesus would do  were he living in Guyana in the current circumstances.The sin of omission is the most common sin in a Christian’s life. (Omission simply means: something left out, not done or neglected).Many Guyanese Christians are guilty of this sin in this writer’s opinion. I am going to share with the

reader several examples of how Christians are guilty of the sin of omission. I will give examples of where most Guyanese Christians failed to act, speak out, and chose to remain silent on the moral, spiritual, and political decline of our nation.
Presently, this writer believes that Guyana is going through a real political, moral, and spiritual crisis. What are most Christians doing about it? Nothing! Most Christians are choosing to remain silent.
What are some examples of the crisis Guyanese are facing? For example, almost everyday many poor people are being marginalised and taken advantage of.  In addition, a number of women are being killed by domestic violence and most Christians don’t speak out.

Furthermore, many poor people are suffering financially and emotionally and most Christians act as if they don’t care. They don’t show any compassion for the poor and needy.

A number of poor people are facing grave poverty, and many Christians are doing nothing to help.

The country of Guyana is facing a breakdown of the basic family structure, which has led to the moral and spiritual crisis. And what most Christians are doing about this, you guessed it: they are choosing to remain silent.

In Guyana, sexual abuse, greed, corruption and bribes, are prevalent and rampant and most Christians choose to turn a blind eye.

What does this writer recommend to change the trajectory of our nation?

I recommend the words of a great German theologian. When Germany was facing a similar fate to Guyana, right before World War 11, speaking to the German Christians, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote these words: “Speak out for those who cannot speak–who in the church today realises that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?”

How many of my readers today would agree with me that most Guyanese Christians are not speaking out for those who cannot speak?
 

Bonhoeffer continues: “The church does, nonetheless, play a vital role for the state. What is that role? The church must continually ask the state whether its action can be justified as legitimate action of the state, i.e., as action which leads to law and order, and not to lawlessness and disorder.”

In other words, it is the church’s role to help the state be the state. If the state is not creating an atmosphere of law and order, as scripture says it must, then it is the job of the church to draw the state’s attention to this failing.”

In closing, because most Guyanese Christians are not playing the vital role that they are called to do as Christians, the country is facing a major political, spiritual, and moral crisis. Therefore, I am calling on every Christian, not just Christian leaders in Guyana, to start taking action, speaking out, and stop remaining silent or Guyana will be heading towards a disaster.

May God bless Guyana!