"I had many Job moments in my life," Hizzoner said at the Power and Authority Church, giving a nod 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 becomes stronger. This is where I get my strength from," the mayor later added to reporters. "This is the source of my energy."
A reporter asked Adams if he felt as if he was being persecuted because his police commissioner, Edward Caban, and other close allies had the feds at their doors, waving warrants and seizing their electronics, last week. "If that's all you got out of that sermon, you're missing it," the mayor replied. "We all go through things."
Despite the mayor's recent run of trouble, many churchgoers backed him. "I'm a fan - he seems down to earth," Pamela Green, a 40-year-old mom who was coming out of Changing Lives with her two young children, told The Post. Elizabeth Armstrong, a 62-year-old nurse, said she tends to agree. "I have been reading about the investigations on him, yes," she said. "But to me, when you are in the political life and the limelight, you are gonna' have things thrown at you.
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