Church's Call to Racial Reconciliation and Unity

The unrighteous killing comes George Floyd yes really underneath and underpinning that has never left the the culture this this legacy of the original sin of our country has never fully been addressed the reason it has never fully been addressed is that the church has not sufficiently addressed it if the church had not behaved the way the church behaved endorsing it and legitimizing this unrighteousness whether it's slavery Jim Crow pause from some other proceeding of systemic evils that none of this would happen. [00:01:08]

At the core of all of this is a spiritual problem and that's why the church has to be the leader in fixing it in fact it is the church to a large degree may be the largest degree that caused it. [00:04:03]

Second Chronicles 15 verses 3 to 6 it says because there was failure with the priests and failure with the spiritual leadership there was trouble in the land and then it says for God troubled them with every kind of distress so God takes the blame for the trouble in the land because of the failure of the leadership. [00:04:43]

The black church had to establish itself separate from the white church because it could never be part of it and they had to be a distinction made that impact created a social movement coming out of the black church because it don't the the the cultural Church the white church was not speaking to the implications of what the culture was doing endorsed by the theology of the church. [00:05:57]

I was informed by a number of stations we can't let you want because we because it would offend too many of our white listeners okay that's so these were stations until James Dobson wrote a letter telling stations to open up the operative door of opportunity that door of opportunity was closed in any broad-based levels level okay that was 1986. [00:10:14]

This is the long history of the legal use or approved use of law enforcement to promote the end unjust treatment of minorities and particularly african-americans in particular growing up as a young man I know most times I was stopped because I was perceived to be in the wrong wrong neighborhood why are you all why are you here. [00:14:27]

The Bible allows righteous protests in Acts chapter 16 yes Paul protested be is illegitimate imprisonment he protested it spiritually illegally and so righteous protest against evil is very legitimate what is not legitimate is you committing rebellion against God in the name of a righteous purpose of a protest. [00:17:31]

Personally you've got to establish in your own heart that you want to be part of the solution that if there is any dependence needed by you personally and then I I encourage you to intentionally build a bridge with someone different than you and then the two of you go serve somebody else together in other words reconciliation doesn't start with seminars they start with service. [00:18:48]

We must train our children to judge people like King said by the content of their character not the color of their skin we must connect with other families different than we are and again so another family worse off than you are so that you are being unified in a common purpose. [00:20:05]

Unless the church becomes developed Kingdom citizens who are now culturally effective as followers of Christ in their spheres of influence great work of their workplace their community their their orientation so that the culture sees the church leading the change then we will not see the comprehensive impact that we are long. [00:21:17]

There should be multi-ethnic impact yes and multi-ethnic impact one can be integrated churches but people have choice this is America so you can choose you may prefer certain type of preaching you live before a certain type of scene you had that treat them so so we should be open to all nobody should be discriminated by based on racial class. [00:21:48]

Father thank you for my brother thank you for this great ministry that is seeking to make a difference in the world thank you for the hearts of so many brothers and sisters who want to see right done but to just need guidance and how to get it done in a righteous way would you open up the heart of black and white Christians alike so that we are on the same page achieving the same goal in a righteous and just way. [00:23:28]