What am I learning?



So many thoughts whirling around my head and heart. 

    I've seen posts about how God made us one race. My understanding of the intent of those posts was to say we need to stop focusing on addressing racism and get everyone to Christ. I agree that Christ is the key. But I think there are a lot of people who say they are Christians but live with division in their hearts. I was reminded of the movie we watched recently "Remember the Titans." 

    The school board said that the boys (black and white) were all a team. But before leaving for a camp, they were a team in name only; they had no love for each other, only hate.  But the coach didn''t let them stay in the place. He got them to spend time with each other, to work together, laugh together, eat together, live together. It's hard to hate up close. Once they got past their differences, they could focus on their mutual goals and truly be a team. 

    I think that's the same way with the church. Yes, God made us all one race. However, because of sin, we live in a fallen world. Horrible wrongs were done to a whole people group. This happened over a long period of time with ongoing effects. Unless we are intentional about listening to and fully accepting our brothers and sisters, we will continue to experience division. When people say one thing with their mouths, but live something different with their lives, you believe what they show in their lives. 

    I'm tired. I'm tired of reading posts from people who say the love the Lord but their messages say they value old statues more than people. I'm tired of people who add to the division while saying let's be united.  
  
I've posted a lot over the last few weeks but wanted to highlight some good resources here: 

The evangelical church needs to speak up where it has been silent on injustice and racism.


So much history here that I was never taught

History This Phil Vischer video explains a lot


June 11th Facebook post- 

Some things I haven't yet watched but want to:


  • Remember the Titans - saw it- loved it!
  • Selma (13+)- saw it- cried through it! 
  • 13th

Some Actions to Take

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lord I believe, Help my unbelief

23  Jesus said to him,  “If [ a ]   you can believe, all things  are  possible to him who believes.” 24  Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” Keegan and Israel made it to Bermuda! I was stressing because we were having trouble getting his covid test results. My friend really came through for us in finding and getting him to a test site. You worked out the details. His travel authorization approval came through at 730 before they closed at 8! 
Read more

Our Nation's "Auto-immune" disease

    I've thought a lot about auto-immune diseases over the past few years. My daughter was diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis 5 1/2 years ago. My Dad was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis last year. I've been in the process of diagnosis for many years now. Damage from my auto-immune disease has kept me from doing some things I like to do like run and play tennis. Earlier this week when I attempted to ride my bike, I had to stop early because my knee hurt to much to ride.  As I sadly turned around, I thought how much racism is like an auto-immune disease.      First, racism and auto-immune diseases both injure their own body. Auto-immune conditions cause the body to fight against itself. Unfortunately, racism causes the same thing in the human race. While God designed a beautiful rainbow of the human race, some people fight against this diversity. If we are tearing each other down with words or actions, we are fighting against God's design and hindering gro...
Read more