One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
I have become the brother they needed; they have become the brothers I needed.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
We should be willing to go to those places (beginning with going across the street) where our weakness will be exposed, where our weakness and our “being an outsider” will be so clearly exposed, that only the Holy Spirit can help me and empower me to carry through.
October 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV walked into an Amish schoolhouse carrying a weapon.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Churches that are located in communities where there are no minorities can still work to increase their understanding of other ethnic groups.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
We have preached a gospel that leaves us believing that we can be reconciled to God but not reconciled to our Christian brothers and sisters who don’t look like us—brothers and sisters with whom we are, in fact, one blood.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
instead of a bloodbath, the world saw the formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
“Real commitment is doing things that you don’t like to do in the face of fear.”
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
chapter 1: “The Church Should Look Like That” with a look at God’s vision for the church.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
They can prepare their hearts so that minorities would feel comfortable visiting.