If you believe in missions, then you have to believe in racial justice and racial reconciliation. So what many people in the civil rights movement and elsewhere were doing with churches that were trapped in that culture was to come in and say: If in fact God has created a church made up of every tribe, tongue, nation, and language, then to prize my ethnicity as somehow being better than yours-much less to oppress with evil those of other ethnicities is the contradiction of the Gospel. You can’t be pro-missions and white supremacist. You cannot be pro-missions and racially bigoted. Whether I’m conflating some other memories or not, we did sing that all the time, and I was starting to conclude that those two things did not go together. Jesus loves the little children of the world.'” Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight.
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“Let’s sing ‘Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. But what was underlying that comment was a much, much larger worldview of white supremacy.Īnd as I’ll often say when I talk about that story, I don’t know if it’s my memory playing tricks on me, but it seems to me as though right after that comment, she gathered us up together saying: This was not during the times when people would have been seeing images on their screen of people being beaten in the streets. Now, this was long past the days of Jim Crow Mississippi. And for all you know a colored man may have held that coin.” She didn’t want me to choke on the quarter.īut what she did, was to come up to me and say, “Now you don’t want to put that coin in your mouth, because you don’t know where that coin has been. And the lady who was teaching that day was rightly upset about that.
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As kids of that age will do, I was sort of playing with the quarter because for whatever reason they didn’t take up the envelopes until the end of that day.Īnd so I was playing with the quarter, and I put the quarter in my mouth. whether or not you shared the gospel with somebodyĪnd so my parents would often give me a quarter or a nickel or something to put in the offering envelope, and I had a quarter in there. whether or not you’d read your Bible daily
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whether or not you were going to attend the worship service