- Joining us now to breakdown what is happening

in Minneapolis and toshare about how the church

is responding is Nick Hall.

He is the founder of Pulse,a millennial-led prayer

and evangelism movementbased in Minneapolis.

Nick, thank you so much forcoming on the broadcast.

This is day nine ofprotests in several states

across the county andyou recently took part

in peaceful protest.

How should faith communitiesaddress these protests?

- Yeah, I really believethat this is a crisis moment

in America and hopefully a turning point

for the church in America,especially the primarily

white church in suburbia thathas been silent historically.

I mean and what we'reseeing in the Twin Cities

of Minneapolis - St. Paulis hundreds of churches

coming together, being onthe front lines of this.

And I've really been callingpastors and faith leaders

that we need every voice, weneed every person speaking out.

For so many of our brothersand sisters of color

they interpret silence as complicity

and I think they're right.

I think that there hasbeen silence for too long

and now is not the time for silence.

And so we're seeing peoplemarching in peaceful protests.

We're seeing pastors andministry leaders standing

on the edges of many of these gatherings

for protection and safety of all.

We're seeing pastors andministry leaders in the middle

of conflict trying to de-escalate,

almost standing in the gapbetween our law enforcement

officials and those thatare angry right now,

with good reason, but noone is condoning violence

and looting, but I think thereality is if we are more

willing to speak outagainst looting and riots

than we are to speak outagainst the systemic racism

and the unjust death of George Floyd,

that points to the problemthat has existed for too long.

- Sure, you know aswell that a large number

of protesters are millennials.

Nick, how can the church bereaching them to bring healing?

- Yeah, I think that themillennial generation wants

to see a church that isfollowing the example of Jesus.

And so I think that nowis the time for the church

to reclaim her voice that Jesusstood for the eternal lives

of people and also the livesthat they live here and now.

He didn't just standagainst eternal suffering,

He stood against presentsuffering and so I really think

that now is the time toremove this false barrier

that has existed, wheresomehow if we speak out

against injustice that that'sa liberal or a social gospel.

I think we need to reclaim the narrative

that there's one gospel andit's a gospel that covers every

part of the life here andevery part of the life to come.

I think millennials are lookingfor a cause to be a part of,

I think Jesus is the exampleof righteousness and justice.

- You know that in a numberof cities that the protests

have turned violentthey're targeting officers

in some cases, what can bedone to help end the violence?

- Yeah again, I think thatnow is the time to speak

peace in the midst of this storm.

I think we need intercessory prayer.

I think this is a demonic battle.

It's a demonic battlethat's turning people

against each otherinstead of drawing people

towards each other to understand.

I think we need to seekunderstanding in the longterm

and in the short term,I think we need voices

of peace speaking up.

I do think we need people on the ground

in the middle of this.

This isn't a time forarmchair quarterbacks

and trying to criticize what'shappening from the distance

as much as it is people that are there

trying to de-escalatesituations, trying to pray,

trying to offer perspectiveand I think we need to support

our authorities as they'retrying to enforce curfews,

not to stop peaceful protest,but to protect our citizens.

- Quickly, you wrote recentlyon a Facebook post saying

that prayer is our supernatural protest

against demonic injusticebefore Almighty God.

Real quickly 30 secondscan you explain this?

- Yeah, I really believethat this is the way

that we protest beforeGod, in terms of saying

God, these things aren'tright, we're coming before you,

there are strongholds and principalities

and we need to battle as thepeople of God on our knees.

We need to confess the sin of racism.

We need to repent and Ithink we need to ask God

to heal our land.

- That's a very, very good word, sir.

Nick really appreciate it.

By the way, a Memorialservice for George Floyd

will be held in Minneapolis today.

It will be one of threeservices that will take place

in three states over thecourse of the next six days.

Nick, thank you so muchfor coming onto the show

and very, very importantmessage at this time.

- [Nick] Thank you, George.