Mayor Eric Adams compared himself to the Bible's long-suffering Job and asked a local bishop to “pray for me” when he visited two Brooklyn churches on Sunday — just days after the incident Federal agencies targeted some of his top aides,
Adams visited Power and Authority Evangelical Ministry on Sheffield Avenue and then Changing Lives Christian Center on Linden Boulevard and spoke about the book of Job at both places of worship, calling it “my favorite story.”
“I’ve had a lot of Job moments in my life,” Hizzoner said at Power and Authority Church, pointing to the famously persecuted biblical character and comparing the story to his own struggles with learning disabilities, dyslexia and diabetes. “These are Job moments. When your faith is strong.
“This is where I get my strength from,” the mayor told reporters afterward. “This is my source of energy.”
A reporter asked Adams if he felt he was being persecuted because Police Commissioner Edward Caban and other close associates Last week, the federal government showed up at his door, waving warrants and seizing his electronic devices.
“If that’s all you got from that sermon, you’re missing it,” the mayor replied. “We all experience something.”
He then walked to his car and shook hands with Power and Authority Bishop Rotimi Onabanjo.
“Pray—pray for them all,” said Adams. “Pray for me.”
A spokesperson present at the scene clarified that he was not asking journalists to pray for him.
Despite the mayor's recent troubles, many churchgoers support him.
“I’m a fan of theirs — they seem very practical,” mom Pamela Green, 40, who was coming out of Changing Lives with her two young children, told The Post.
Nurse Elizabeth Armstrong, 62, said she agrees.
“Yes, I've been reading about the investigations against him,” she said. “But I think when you're in political life and in the spotlight, a lot of things get thrown at you. And that makes his job a little bit more difficult.”
“It was a good message,” LaToya Bass, 46, said of Adams’ sermons.
“We are happy to have him in the Lord’s house. And I hope the Lord will heal him and guide him so that he can lead us, the city, in the right direction.
He added, “You have to start everything with God. If it's not done that way, it won't work.”
