Thread by @WokePreacherTV

"There's no holiness. There's no gospel joy. There's no gospel love without gospel lament. That's an often-ignored truth, but it's a beautiful truth."

Bob Cargo, Perimeter Church

Source: perimeter.org/messages/serie…

So, uh...

...Chapter and verse?

To be clear, lament is biblical (James 4:8-10 comes to mind), but "no x without it" needs more justification. How many accounts of conversion/salvation in Acts do we see without it? And isn't "good news lament" a self-refuting phrase?

"God has not called us to treat the poor...people of a different race...in the same manner as we treat everyone else. He's called us to do much more...to actively seek them out, love them, listen to them, learn from them, lament w them, to serve them to an even greater degree."

Sounds so pretty until you realize it's just liberation theology mixed with a dash of postmodern Manichaeism.

More Manichaeism

"If you're here in our congregation as a POC, thank you. Thank you for being here. We need you here. We want to learn from you. We know that you're a pioneer...Thank you for being here. We need you...Oh brothers of color, we need you that we can learn from you."

Yes, there's nothing wrong with emphasizing POC are as a valued part of the body. But unless he means "we can learn from you" to signal "I don't believe you are incapable of reading and understanding the scriptures," he's practicing partiality as espoused in the previous clip.

Racialized epistemology, where one culture is seen as possessing a purer and wider understanding of reality and thus the scriptures, is an open gateway for error, as we've seen from liberation theology coming back into vogue in mainline megachurches.