SAVED TO COMMUNITY In God’s economy, we are saved to community. We not only need to confess, but we need someone to listen to our confession. Picture the power of members of a White congregation taking the sin of racism so seriously that they are willing to sit before a Black congregation and speak of their own complicity in the sin of racism as well as listen intensely to the pain that their African American neighbors experience in their lives. As Dr. Tutu explains, “True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible.” (No Future Without Forgiveness, Desmond Tutu.) TAKING RACISM SERIOUSLY Picture the power of members of a White congregation taking the sin … Continue reading
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