One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
It’s going to be won by those who will be courageous enough to stand and tell the truth about the ugliness of ethnic hatred and the beauty of true Christian brotherhood.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Forgiveness is the linchpin of reconciliation.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Emphasize This point as the most crucial point. Again, the greatest thing the church can do is for you and I to work and serve and seek reconciliation through each of our individual relationships. The church can plan and strategize...and trust me...we have and we will continue…but the most important act is that of repentance…to forgive and to seek forgiveness.In most occasions we want to rush through forgiveness! We cannot afford to do so! The American thing is to "fix" it. Not helpful!
If we treat people how we want to be treated, God will bless us.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Wayne is a super-manager and I am a super-idealist and a super-principle guy, with very little management skill.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
the Confederate battle flag, was removed from the state capitol grounds with relatively little of the controversy that had surrounded it for decades.”2
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Why wasn't controversial all of a sudden??
God calls us each on a journey, an Abrahamic journey.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Like the idea that the "promised land" was STILL had to be conquered. God's People were both judging and redeeming the land and its people.
Maybe others were made to feel unwelcome in a church because they were the other.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
There have been people that have come to Redeemer that left because the didn't feel welcome. BUT why? Don't answer quickly. Just think about. I have talked to some of them. Yes, some didn't feel welcome but it wasn't because what it was done to them here…but because what they felt here reminded them of ehat they have felt before. And it was hard for them to deal with it here. The Gospel judges all of us! Just as it had to deal with me before I could freeley work here…because I hadn't firgiven in MS…because I hadn't asked for forgiveneess in MS.
I believe the Declaration of Independence makes the greatest affirmative statement about reconciliation in human history.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Yes, my steps are a little slower now … but my spirit is energized. I still have joy. I am full of hope for the future. We will get there. We will get there—together. We will get there—as one.