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23 Feb, 5 tweets, 1 min read
In America, persecution doesn’t come when you talk like Jesus is Lord. It comes when you live like Jesus is Lord.
/2 When you live like Jesus is Lord over Racism, they will bomb your churches, beat and tear gas you for marching for justice or even kill you on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, and in prayer meetings at Mother Emmanuel AME.
/3 When you live like Jesus is Lord over misogyny, they will denigrate and mock you with ugly names like man-hater, Femi-Nazi, and Jezebel, troll and bully you, and try to push you out of the church.
/4 When you live like Jesus is Lord over xenophobia, they will call you unpatriotic, divisive, social justice warrior, cultural marxist, political hack, partisan operative, a distraction and a heretic.
/5 When you live like Jesus is Lord over abusive systems, they will accuse you of not believing in forgiveness, grace, or reconciliation. They will malign you as a gossip & a slanderer. They will stand with perpetrators against victims & try to force you into silence about abuse.

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7 Jan
When racism, misogyny, & xenophobia go unchallenged in the church, people believe violence is justified.

When we align ourselves with partisan agendas without critique, people believe violence is justified.

When we vilify empathy & justice people believe violence is justified.
When Christians treat antiracism as more dangerous than racism people believe violence is justified

When we celebrate base impulses as real manhood people believe violence is justified

When we treat neighbor love as distracting to the gospel people believe violence is justified
When our Christianity includes America first, people believe violence is justified

When we normalize violence against women, children, minorities, people believe violence is justified

When we refuse to call Christian nationalism idolatrous people believe violence is justified
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14 Nov 20
Though there is much triumph in Ruby’s story, there is also much tragedy, particularly for the church. It’s almost certain that many of the teachers who refused to teach Ruby, the student who harassed her, & the mobs that threatened her were members of Christian churches.
Consider how these Christians treated a 6year old child of the church because she was black.

Until we recognize the complicity of the church in creating unsafe and toxic environments for black christians, we won’t completely understand this story.
Can you imagine if deacons and pastors from white churches had helped escort Ruby bridges into an integrated classroom. If they had treated Ruby Bridges as if she was a child of their community, a member of their body, deserving of equal access and education as a coheir in Christ
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1 Aug 20
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24 May 20
Church leaders,
Jesus will not hold us accountable for the well-being of the national economy, but he will *definitely* hold us accountable for the well-being of his people.
👆🏾This is not a false dichotomy. The history of America is replete with examples of communities who have suffered so that the US economy could flourish.

Of course a healthy economy helps people. But the immediate costs must always be weighed against the long term benefit.
Reinhold Neibuhr’s “moral man and immoral society” is a classic treatment of the inherent selfishness of institutions which often sacrifice individuals so that institution can thrive.

The scribes and pharisees had turned the 1st century Temple into that kind of institution.
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14 Jul 19
Joseph was a poor exploited ethnic minority, without freedom or rights in a land and culture not his own.

Potiphar was wealthy, politically well-connected, influential, socially elite, and powerful.

*BUT*

I’d rather be The Lord’s Joseph, than the world’s Potiphar.
Joseph was sold into slavery, i.e. poor & had no rights. At the height of his success in Potiphar’s house he was still a slave unable to go home.

Potipher’s wife leverages Joseph’s ethnicity against him to get rid of him (this “Hebrew” slave you bought to mock “us” [Egyptians])
Joseph’s ethnic marginalization cont: Text says Potiphar concerned himself “only with the food he ate.” Egyptians considered Hebrew shepherds inferior & would not receive food from their hand or eat with them at table. (see Gen 43)
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22 Mar 19
Pastors do well to prepare the saints to resist the upsurge of polarization sure to come this election cycle.

Partisan factions don’t care about the blood bought peace & unity of the church. But we are called to “guard the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.”
1. Don’t ignore politics. Don’t let party platforms shape the moral compass & worldview of the Lord’s people.

Apply gospel principles to practical social realities. Give the saints a wider moral purview & capacity for compassion than their preferred political party.
2. Don’t let your political, social, or cultural identity limit your capacity for compassion and empathy.

Where people are hurting and mistreated, empathize with them and help them, even when it’s not politically expedient to do so.
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