BIBLICAL UNITY AND RACE. TONY MITCHELL BILL IBSEN PA RT 1 o f 2

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1 BIBLICAL UNITY AND RACE TONY MITCHELL BILL IBSEN PA RT 1 o f 2

2 Biblical Unity Impact Your Dining Room Biblical Love Goals Togetherness Understanding Healthy Conversation

3 WHAT WE DON T WANT TO DO PROVOKE ANGER/HATRED CAUSE DIVISION BE POLITICAL OFFER NO SOLUTIONS

4 PLEASE YOUR QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: Tony Mitchell: Bill Ibsen:

5 1 RACIAL MESSAGES & DISSONANCE

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16 WHITE GUILT

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19 KKK is welcomed to a Baptist Church service in Portland, Oregon, 1922

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21 If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim.

22 You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievment is entitlement.

23 So now you think you are owed something and you don t have to work for it and now you re on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood.

24 Aggrievement and Entitlement. And you still won t have a job. Condaleeza Rice

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31 Racial pain is a deep pain because it goes to the soul of one s being. No one has a choice over one s birth.

32 To be attacked with racial prejudice is a form of murder because you are at risk just by virtue of your very being. Ravi Zacharias

33 2 BIBLICAL MESSAGES AND CLARITY

34 WHAT RACE IS GOD?

35 We unconsciously tend to see only our race in the commands of the Bible

36 all nations = all races Go, therefore and make disciples of all the nations Matthew 28:19

37 believers of all races Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15:b

38 you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth. Different races Acts 1:8

39 HOW DOES GOD VIEW RACE?

40 GOD S VIEW 1. We re all one in Christ 2. We re all one in sin 3. Loves all races 4. Desires unity 5. All races will be in heaven 6. Prominent Black people represented in the Bible

41 1. WE RE ALL ONE IN CHRIST

42 RACIAL COMMONALITY: NO SUPERIORITY What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; Romans 3:9

43 Jews Greeks (Gentiles) Jewish Race Non-Jewish Race (all other races on earth)

44 RACIAL COMMONALITY: NO DISTINCTION FROM GOD S VIEWPOINT there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all Colossians 3:11

45 RACIAL COMMONALITY: NO DISTINCTION FROM GOD S VIEWPOINT There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28

46 2. WE RE ALL ONE IN SIN

47 RACIAL COMMONALITY: all races GUILT For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23

48 RACIAL COMMONALITY: SIN NATURE THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING,

49 RACIAL COMMONALITY: SIN NATURE THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS ; WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS

50 RACIAL COMMONALITY: SIN NATURE THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD, DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS, AND THE PATH OF PEACE HAVE THEY NOT KNOWN. Romans 3:13-17

51 RACIAL COMMONALITY: SIN NATURE God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29to those who practice them..

52 RACIAL COMMONALITY: SIN NATURE being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice;

53 RACIAL COMMONALITY: SIN NATURE they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil,

54 RACIAL COMMONALITY: SIN NATURE disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;

55 RACIAL COMMONALITY: SIN NATURE and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, Bill they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. Romans 1:29-32

56 RACIAL COMMONALITY: SIN NATURE For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God Bill through the death of His Son Romans 5:10

57 3. GOD LOVES ALL RACES & COMMANDS HIS BODY TO DO THE SAME

58 All nations; all races For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

59 This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you John 15:12

60 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

61 Wherefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God. Romans 15:7

62 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15:b

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64 4. GOD DESIRES UNITY IN THE BODY OF CHRIST

65 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. Ephesians 2:1, 3-6

66 that they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me. John 17:21

67 5. ALL RACES WILL BE IN HEAVEN

68 I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb Revelation 7:9

69 Prominent Black people represented in the Bible Jethro (priest of Midian) Moses father-in-law Zipporah, Moses Midianite wife (interracial marriage) Zephaniah the prophet (a Cushite) Bathsheeba (daughter of Sheeba, African tribe) Rahab (descendant from Ham) Ruth (descendant of Ham) Nimrod (built Assyria and Babylon) Ethiopian Enunch Acts 13: Two African leaders helped establish the church

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71 TOPICS STYLE SHIFTING SEGREGATION WHITE GUILT BLACK ANGER WHITE PRIVLEDGE BLACK SENSITIVITY WHITE INSENSITIVY

72 APPLICATION: 4 EXTENDING INTO YOUR LIVING ROOM

73 APPLICATION Invite someone of a different race to your table DO S AND DON TS Seek to understand, not to be understood Don t talk about race or politics Just get to know their life story

74 ONLINE VIDEO RESOURCES FBC Diversity Workshop -Bryan Loritts LifePath online rightnow MEDIA Oneness Embraced videos with Dr Tony Evans

75 YOUR QUESTIONS: Tony Mitchell: Bill Ibsen:

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