PDF-(READ)-One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love

Dr Perkins final manifesto on race faith and reconciliation We are living in historic times Not since the civil rights movement of the 60s has our country been this vigorously engaged in the reconciliation conversation There is a great opportunity right now for culture to change to be a more perfect union However it cannot be done without the church because the faith of the people is more powerful than any law government can enactThe church is the heart and moral compass of a nation To turn a country away from God you must sideline the church To turn a nation to God the church must turn first Racism wont end in America until the church is reconciled first Thenand only thencan it spiritually and morally lead the wayDr John M Perkins is a leading civil rights activist today He grew up in a Mississippi sharecropping family was an early pioneer of the civil rights movement and has dedicated his life to the cause of racial equality In this his crowning work Dr Perkins speaks honestly to the church about reconciliation discipleship and justice and what it really takes to live out biblical reconciliationHe offers a call to repentance to both the white church and the black church He explains how bandaid approaches of the past wont do And while applauding these starter efforts he holds that true reconciliation wont happen until we get more intentional and relational True friendships must happen and on every level This will take the whole church not just the pastors and staffThe racial reconciliation of our churches and nation wont be done with big campaigns or through mass media It will come one loving sacrificial relationship at a time The gospel and all that it encompasses has always traveled best relationally We have much to learn from each other and each have unique poverties that can only be filled by one another The way forward is to become wounded healers who bandage each other up as we discover what the family of God really looks like Real relationships sacrificial love between actual people is the way forward Nothing less will do. 3$57,1*$1'*5229,1* Turning ciple is the same but with the difference that the cut is shallower and not taken to the centre. 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