“Jesus’s final prayer was oriented around a vision for unity, and he commissioned his church to be the healing agent that brings the ministry of reconciliation into broken and fractured places in society. And yet an honest assessment raises more questions than answers. Is the church at large, and are we as individuals, currently making any contribution to healing the divisions? Or are we making things worse? Have we come to grips with our role in creating this divide, or are we stuck in a state of denial?”
― Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
― Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
“If repentance requires turning and walking away from the sins of our past, doesn’t it require walking toward something more reparative? So reparations and repentance are inextricably intertwined, and those who’ve inherited the power and benefits of past wrongs should work to make it right for those who’ve inherited the burdens and oppression of the past.”
― Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
― Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
“Jesus can make beauty from ashes, but the family of God must first see and acknowledge the ashes.”
― Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
― Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
“In the love of the family of God, we must become color brave, color caring, color honoring, and not color blind. We have to recognize the image of God in one another. We have to love despite, and even because of, our differences.”
― Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
― Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
“Here’s my point: the solution to an overbusy life is not more time. It’s to slow down and simplify our lives around what really matters.”
― The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world
― The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world
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