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    It goes on... and on...

    This is in Christianity Today.



  • #2
    So basically, I'm guilty just because I happen to be Caucasian.
    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
    Than a fool in the eyes of God


    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
      So basically, I'm guilty just because I happen to be Caucasian.
      Oh, the shame of it all. How can you even continue to get out of bed each morning?
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • #4
        Conservatives and Trump voters are hurting right now because of the (I want to say "insane level of") hatred and bile that they're getting from the left. What does the left owe them?
        I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Zymologist View Post
          Conservatives and Trump voters are hurting right now because of the (I want to say "insane level of") hatred and bile that they're getting from the left. What does the left owe them?
          More grief. It's all they got!
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #6
            Questions:

            1: Do black evangelicals who voted for Obama owe me an apology for the additional 10 trillion in debt, the destabilization of the middle east, and the race baiting that has divided this country?
            2: Do the black evangelicals who voted for Obama owe an apology to the families of fallen officers who've been shot by radicals openly supported by Obama?
            3: Do the black evangelicals who supported Clinton owe an apology to the entire nation for supporting such a thoroughly corrupt candidate?

            You should be sensitive to other people's pain because it is the right thing to do.
            Calling out 'whites' or 'blacks' is ridiculous race baiting.

            I wouldn't use Christianity Today to line a bird's cage - they'd have to clean up their act to be worth crap.
            Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Sparko View Post


              It goes on... and on...

              This is in Christianity Today.

              About the authors:
              Source: CT

              Ed Stetzer holds the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College. Laurie Nichols is the Director of Communication for the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College.

              © Copyright Original Source



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              • #8
                4: How about the media apologize for hyping up Trump into someone he clearly isn't and scaring all of these innocent people?
                5: I have yet to see one thing Trump has done that has harmed minorities - how can we apologize before there is harm?

                The logical flaws that run throughout this piece of garbage should be enough to forever exclude the authors from further publication.
                I await the author's apology for writing such a poorly considered piece.
                Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View Post
                  4: How about the media apologize for hyping up Trump into someone he clearly isn't and scaring all of these innocent people?
                  5: I have yet to see one thing Trump has done that has harmed minorities - how can we apologize before there is harm?

                  The logical flaws that run throughout this piece of garbage should be enough to forever exclude the authors from further publication.
                  I await the author's apology for writing such a poorly considered piece.
                  I dunno man...Trump is, like, really bad. Not good like Castro (may he rest in peace).
                  I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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                  • #10
                    Off the top of my head, if anyone cares for serious discussion rather than regurgitated doctrinaire conservativism:

                    1. Love for people created in the image of God.

                    If Y: go to 2.
                    If N: Either not a Christian, or not an Evangelical.

                    2. If love for people created in the image of God, then treatment as Christ would give treatment.

                    If Y: go to 3.
                    If N: Either not a Christian, or an Evangelical.

                    3. If treatment per Christ, then missions of evangelism and compassion to the affected people group.

                    If Y: go to 4
                    If N: Either not a Christian, or an Evangelical.

                    4. Application of short term and long term missions. Support of missionary churches with financial resources from established mission-sending churches.

                    If Y: go to 5
                    If N: Either not a Christian, or an Evangelical.

                    5. Education of community leaders who will continue to work in a culturally relevant way with the evangelized people. Continued commitment to discipleship from missionary churches.

                    If y: Congratulations, you have done to others as Christ did to you. You have fulfilled the most basic, fundamental tenets of authentic New Testament Christianity:

                    Originally posted by Matthew 7:12
                    In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
                    and

                    If N: either not an Christian, or an Evangelical.

                    If you persist in thinking that you are a Christian, or an Evangelical, but you did not get to and agree with all 1-5, then there is another appropriate scripture reference for you:

                    Originally posted by Hebrews 5:11-15
                    About [Jesus Christ] we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull in understanding. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food; 13 for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
                    Yours in Christ,
                    guaca.
                    "Down in the lowlands, where the water is deep,
                    Hear my cry, hear my shout,
                    Save me, save me"

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                      About the authors:
                      Source: CT

                      Ed Stetzer holds the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College. Laurie Nichols is the Director of Communication for the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College.

                      © Copyright Original Source



                      Sad.
                      Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by guacamole View Post
                        Off the top of my head, if anyone cares for serious discussion rather than regurgitated doctrinaire conservativism:

                        1. Love for people created in the image of God.

                        If Y: go to 2.
                        If N: Either not a Christian, or not an Evangelical.

                        2. If love for people created in the image of God, then treatment as Christ would give treatment.

                        If Y: go to 3.
                        If N: Either not a Christian, or an Evangelical.

                        3. If treatment per Christ, then missions of evangelism and compassion to the affected people group.

                        If Y: go to 4
                        If N: Either not a Christian, or an Evangelical.

                        4. Application of short term and long term missions. Support of missionary churches with financial resources from established mission-sending churches.

                        If Y: go to 5
                        If N: Either not a Christian, or an Evangelical.

                        5. Education of community leaders who will continue to work in a culturally relevant way with the evangelized people. Continued commitment to discipleship from missionary churches.

                        If y: Congratulations, you have done to others as Christ did to you. You have fulfilled the most basic, fundamental tenets of authentic New Testament Christianity:



                        and



                        If N: either not an Christian, or an Evangelical.

                        If you persist in thinking that you are a Christian, or an Evangelical, but you did not get to and agree with all 1-5, then there is another appropriate scripture reference for you:



                        Yours in Christ,
                        guaca.
                        Good response, except the article was not talking about our basic obligation to extend Christian charity to our fellow man; rather, it was a diatribe grounded in critical race theory which says, in essence, that white people are guilty of racism simply because they were born white.
                        Last edited by Mountain Man; 11-30-2016, 06:25 PM.
                        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                        Than a fool in the eyes of God


                        From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                          Good response, except the article was not talking about our basic obligation to extend Christian charity to our fellow man;
                          I didn't read it that way. If so, then it is my answer to him as well.

                          rather, it was a diatribe grounded in critical race theory which says, in essence, that white people are guilty of racism simply because they born white.
                          I'm not sure which part says that.

                          fwiw,
                          guaca.
                          "Down in the lowlands, where the water is deep,
                          Hear my cry, hear my shout,
                          Save me, save me"

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by guacamole View Post
                            I'm not sure which part says that.
                            Um, that's the entire point of the article: we owe black people simply because we're white. That's critical race theory in a nutshell.
                            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                            Than a fool in the eyes of God


                            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                              Um, that's the entire point of the article: we owe black people simply because we're white. That's critical race theory in a nutshell.
                              Then I don't think you read the article carefully enough. Consider his introduction:

                              His thesis, clearly established from the start of the piece, expresses that what he is concerned about is white Christians as members of the Chruch, as in "Where does the Church go from here?" A little bit further on, he writes, not of a racial impetus for his piece, but a Biblical one:

                              Our biblical mandate [emphasis mine] is to care for the marginalized, to walk alongside those who have been victims of prejudice and abuse, to embrace those who are different than us in background and belief.
                              and later
                              Because we are followers of Jesus.
                              [emphasis mine again]

                              Again, we do not owe simply because we are white; we "owe" because we are Christians, part of the church, theoretically or, to put it more sharply, "supposedly" in communion with the black Church.

                              He has some ideas in the article that might be useful and some which might be debateable, but his idea, that the church must lead, is noble, and that it must lead as a unified body of many different parts, is Biblical.

                              fwiw,
                              guaca.

                              PS: Look, he even gives a shout-out to the Cowpokes of Christendom!

                              Last edited by guacamole; 11-30-2016, 06:46 PM. Reason: unclear emphasis!
                              "Down in the lowlands, where the water is deep,
                              Hear my cry, hear my shout,
                              Save me, save me"

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