Empowering Change: Confronting Racial Injustice Together
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"We've been taught to be respectful, but I still see people on the news and all over Instagram still getting punished and still getting hurt. So what are we supposed to respect them without anything changing? Well, first of all, what you don't want to do is stereotype or put everybody in the same basket." [00:00:46]
"Even though we can't control what everybody does, we can control what we do. I've tried to take what my father has given me and make it better not only for my children and grandchildren but to make it better for the people God has brought in my sphere of influence." [00:01:43]
"The Bible says from God's throne comes down justice. Parents are told to raise their kids in Genesis 18 with a focus on justice. So wherever we see injustice, we need to address it. We're dealing with an issue right now in the African-American community about injustice." [00:02:53]
"To the degree that black people, African Americans, are affected by injustice, those injustices must be addressed, clarified, and corrected, whether it's from individuals or whether it is from structures in society that allows for it or promotes it. But as we do it, we must do it in a righteous way." [00:03:19]
"Here's a biblical principle. It's in Luke 6:38. It says give and it will be given to you, pressed down and running over. In other words, the thing you want, give to somebody else, and then God will make sure it comes back to you. So if you want to be friended, then be friendly." [00:05:15]
"Make sure that you give out what you want God to give back to you, and it may come from them, but God has a way of bringing it from somebody else who you haven't met yet. So when you feel an outsider, act and conduct yourself like an insider in the right way." [00:05:38]
"I believe the major way that this will get fixed is by the church. If the church helped cause it, and the way the church helped to cause the racial problem was it made it okay, it said that this is how God wanted it, and they perpetuated a lie that had infiltrated like a cancer the culture." [00:06:09]
"Since the church helped to cause it, the church has got to lead the way to fix it. All these politicians, they can do good things, they can put like a band-aid over it for a while, but it's a spiritual issue. It's an issue of the heart whenever you dislike a person because of the color of the skin." [00:06:35]
"We need people who are going to teach God's standard about race as a sin and let it be known that God is displeased with their racism, God is displeased with their prejudice or discrimination. And when it gets viewed as a sin against God and not just a sin against man, now it becomes something that has to be addressed." [00:07:02]
"I want you young men to become men of valor. The Bible talks about men of valor. They weren't just the ordinary regular guys. These were men who rose to a higher level. These were men who could be trusted at the highest level. They weren't trying to be part of the crowd; they were trying to rise above the crowd." [00:07:31]
"We're in desperate need for leaders. We certainly need African-American leaders, but we also need leaders who know how to build bridges so that unity is restored, decency is restored, kindness is restored, and Jesus Christ is exalted. And if you become those kind of young men, you won't just be part of the crowd." [00:08:02]
"You'll be giving a model for the crowd to follow, and in our world today, we have a generation of young men who are looking for other men to follow. Be the kind of young man worth following." [00:08:31]
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"Even though we can't control what everybody does, we can control what we do. I've tried to take what my father has given me and make it better not only for my children and grandchildren but to make it better for the people God has brought in my sphere of influence." [00:01:43]
"The Bible says from God's throne comes down justice. Parents are told to raise their kids in Genesis 18 with a focus on justice. So wherever we see injustice, we need to address it. We're dealing with an issue right now in the African-American community about injustice." [00:02:53]
"To the degree that black people, African Americans, are affected by injustice, those injustices must be addressed, clarified, and corrected, whether it's from individuals or whether it is from structures in society that allows for it or promotes it. But as we do it, we must do it in a righteous way." [00:03:19]
"Here's a biblical principle. It's in Luke 6:38. It says give and it will be given to you, pressed down and running over. In other words, the thing you want, give to somebody else, and then God will make sure it comes back to you. So if you want to be friended, then be friendly." [00:05:15]
"Make sure that you give out what you want God to give back to you, and it may come from them, but God has a way of bringing it from somebody else who you haven't met yet. So when you feel an outsider, act and conduct yourself like an insider in the right way." [00:05:38]
"I believe the major way that this will get fixed is by the church. If the church helped cause it, and the way the church helped to cause the racial problem was it made it okay, it said that this is how God wanted it, and they perpetuated a lie that had infiltrated like a cancer the culture." [00:06:09]
"Since the church helped to cause it, the church has got to lead the way to fix it. All these politicians, they can do good things, they can put like a band-aid over it for a while, but it's a spiritual issue. It's an issue of the heart whenever you dislike a person because of the color of the skin." [00:06:35]
"We need people who are going to teach God's standard about race as a sin and let it be known that God is displeased with their racism, God is displeased with their prejudice or discrimination. And when it gets viewed as a sin against God and not just a sin against man, now it becomes something that has to be addressed." [00:07:02]
"I want you young men to become men of valor. The Bible talks about men of valor. They weren't just the ordinary regular guys. These were men who rose to a higher level. These were men who could be trusted at the highest level. They weren't trying to be part of the crowd; they were trying to rise above the crowd." [00:07:31]
"We're in desperate need for leaders. We certainly need African-American leaders, but we also need leaders who know how to build bridges so that unity is restored, decency is restored, kindness is restored, and Jesus Christ is exalted. And if you become those kind of young men, you won't just be part of the crowd." [00:08:02]
"You'll be giving a model for the crowd to follow, and in our world today, we have a generation of young men who are looking for other men to follow. Be the kind of young man worth following." [00:08:31]
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