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"What if we applied [Matthew 23] to race and justice? What if we exercised a little creativity and thought about what Jesus might say to the church in America when it comes to race and justice? What if Matthew 23 were to read:
'Woe to you, Reformed Christians and racial moderates, hypocrites! For you hold events to commemorate civil rights activists and read books about the martyrs of anti-racism saying, "If we had lived during the Civil Rights movement, we would not have taken part with the...
racists in shedding the blood of the protestors." Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons and daughters of those who murdered Martin Luther King, Jr. Fill up, then, the measure of your slaveholding and segregationist fathers and mothers. You racists! You racial...
moderates! How are you to escape being sentenced to hell? Therefore I send you social justice warriors and community organizers and activists, some of whom you will put in jail and lynch, and some you will call ‘Marxists’ in your churches and troll on social media, so that on...
you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Medgar Evers to the blood of Emmett Till, the son of Mamie Till-Mobley, whom you lynched in Mississippi. Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this Millennial and Gen Z generation.'
What if Christ is speaking those words to us?"

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Immigrant Korean churches similar to the one I grew up in as a kid couldn't afford to make sharp distinctions between "spiritual" issues and "material/social" issues. When a Korean immigrant - both Christian and non-Christian - came to my hometown, they reached out to my church..
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A good deal of the sermon applications & pew-talk for upper-middle class Americans can be especially damaging for Christians who come from lower-income situations. Being able to preach carefully and pointedly to both is a sign of wise and contextual preaching.

A couple examples:
Telling families barely surviving on food stamps that wanting a better life is a sign of ungodly discontentment and distrust in God's provision.

Reassuring congregants that the discipleship resource, retreat, or event is *only* such and such and is a *small* cost for growth.
Talking matter-of-factly about inheritance, having parents help with down payments, protecting investments, and insuring assets.

Shaming families who don't observe a sabbath rest, even though one or both parents may have to work on Sundays just to survive.
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It's one thing to acknowledge that racism is a stain or blemish on American Christianity. It's another to lament the fact that racism has been woven into the fabric of American Christianity.

The former requires amendment. The latter requires deconstruction and reconstruction.
It's one thing to acknowledge that Christian leaders of the past had racist "skeletons in their closet." It's another to take a cold splash of reality and see that they had fully-enfleshed racism in their living room, office, front porch, pulpit, lecture hall, etc.
It's one thing to say that sometimes the American church used greed & lust for power as sinful means toward good ends. It's another thing to side with God & say that the American church has consistently been bedfellows with empire and empire ethics over Christ's kingdom and call.
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America today is being governed by the minority because the majority is not consistently and collaboratively speaking up and speaking out. That has to change. Here’s my advice/rant to effect that change…
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#resist #democracy #liberty #truth #justice #America #freedom
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This is our WAR CRY, we'll rise up
This is OUR TIME to rise up
RISE UP
I thought by now I would get it
His love for me is unmeasured
Still feel like I could do better
Was paralyzed by depression
But heaven and earth came together
And you came to my rescue
I use my voice as a weapon
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I don't need man's approval
When God sent me to bring heaven
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Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. #Jesus Luke 10
Go your ways: I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
Carry no purse, scrip, shoes: salute no man by the way.
Into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
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And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
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But you—come here, you children of a sorceress, Who are you mocking?At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?
You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree;
you sacrifice your children in the ravines
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