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Rev. Dr. Willie James Jennings, the author of "After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging," engages in severe theological cope to promote sexual egalitarianism in this October 2020 speech for the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity (ISAAC). 
 
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Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGcp2u4j7Rs

Rev. Dr. Willie James Jennings, the author of "After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging," engages in severe theological cope to promote sexual egalitarianism in this October 2020 speech for the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity (ISAAC).

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coming soon

Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGcp2u4j7Rs

Willie James Jennings: Jesus Smashes The "Patriarchal Order" In Matthew 23:9

This is a clip of J.D. Greear I found early on when the WPC account first started. Decided to revisit it over on Twitter and you maniacs were really into it. So, with some fair-use-ified edits, here's the YouTube version. 
 
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This is a clip of J.D. Greear I found early on when the WPC account first started. Decided to revisit it over on Twitter and you maniacs were really into it. So, with some fair-use-ified edits, here's the YouTube version.

Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWIuw3uzxfQ

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Is This The Worst Teaching Of Luke 12:13-21 Ever?

Rev. Ashley Mathews, pastor at Trinity Anglican Church of Atlanta, discusses how she believes Christians should accommodate gay individuals during a 2016 panel discussion at Renovation Church put on by "The Reformation Project," Matthew Vines' organization which asserts that the Bible does not teach homosexuality is a sin. 
 
These clips have been edited for brevity and to eliminate verbal pauses. They can be seen without editing here: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV/status/1432737936479490050 
 
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I think we should also probably stop praying for people to be straight. If you feel led by the Lord to do so, who am I? My own experience has been, however, that for people now particularly, it just puts a barrier immediately into, like I'm trying to change you rather than come alongside you and be with you where you are, right? So there's that. It may or may not, its effectiveness is questionable, so there's that. 
 
And then thirdly, it also still falls into that same fallacy, which is that marriage is our ultimate hope and God's best for you, is really what we're saying. So, I don't really have anything to offer you apart from heterosexuality, so I'm just gonna pray really hard for that. And that, for me, is telling. It's convicting, because I really ought to have something, if this is God's truth and gospel, to offer you apart from marriage, because Jesus didn't seem to need it. Neither did Paul and a host of so many others. 
 
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I need the lived experiences of people who are fighting for their own sanctification alongside me and the rest of us, because you are a reminder to me that sanctification that the Holy Spirit's job and not my job. You are a reminder to me that friendship has been lost. Its place of primacy in the church, what it ought to be between all of us. Same-sex friendships have historically had a place of prominence in the church that they don't have anymore. 
 
And I need you in our church as a reminder that there is a reason Jesus said that there's no greater love than laying down your life for your friends. And if I'm only left with a bunch of married, heterosexual people, I'll never know what he meant. 
 
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Rev. Ashley Mathews, pastor at Trinity Anglican Church of Atlanta, discusses how she believes Christians should accommodate gay individuals during a 2016 panel discussion at Renovation Church put on by "The Reformation Project," Matthew Vines' organization which asserts that the Bible does not teach homosexuality is a sin.

These clips have been edited for brevity and to eliminate verbal pauses. They can be seen without editing here: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV/status/1432737936479490050

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I think we should also probably stop praying for people to be straight. If you feel led by the Lord to do so, who am I? My own experience has been, however, that for people now particularly, it just puts a barrier immediately into, like I'm trying to change you rather than come alongside you and be with you where you are, right? So there's that. It may or may not, its effectiveness is questionable, so there's that.

And then thirdly, it also still falls into that same f

Anglican Priest: "I'll Never Know" What John 15:13 Means If I'm Only Around Straight, Married People

President Joe Biden attempts a biblical reference during prepared remarks addressing a terror attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed at least 12 U.S. soldiers, on August 26, 2021. 
 
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I also want to thank the Secretary of Defense, military leadership of the Pentagon, and all the commanders in the field. There's been complete unanimity from every commander on the objectives of this mission and the best way to achieve those objectives. 
 
Those who have served through the ages have drawn inspiration from the book of Isaiah, when the Lord says, "Whom shall I send? Who shall go for us?" The American military's been answering for a long time: "Here I am, Lord. Send me. Here I am, send me." 
 
[[[[TEXT CHECK: In context, God has appeared to the prophet Isaiah and is calling him to announce judgment to the kingdom of Judah for their sins. Chapter 6 in its entirety reads: 
 
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: 
 
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; 
 the whole earth is full of his glory.” 
 
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 
 
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” 
 
Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” 
 
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” 
 
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” 
 
He said, “Go and tell this people: 
 
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; 
 be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ 
Make the heart of this people calloused; 
 make their ears dull 
 and close their eyes. 
Otherwise they might see with their eyes, 
 hear with their ears, 
 understand with their hearts, 
and turn and be healed.” 
 
Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” 
 
And he answered: 
 
“Until the cities lie ruined 
 and without inhabitant, 
until the houses are left deserted 
 and the fields ruined and ravaged, 
until the Lord has sent everyone far away 
 and the land is utterly forsaken. 
And though a tenth remains in the land, 
 it will again be laid waste. 
But as the terebinth and oak 
 leave stumps when they are cut down, 
 so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”]]]] 
 
Each one of these women and men of our armed forces are the heirs of that tradition of sacrifice, of volunteering to go into harm's way, to risk everything. Not for glory, not for profit, but to defend what we love and the people we love. 
 
And I ask that you join me now in a moment of silence for all those in uniform and out, military and civilians who have given their last full measure of devotion. 
 
Thank you. 
 
May God bless you all and may God protect those troops and all those standing watch for America. We have so much to do. It's within our capacity to do it. We just have to remain steadfast. 
 
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President Joe Biden attempts a biblical reference during prepared remarks addressing a terror attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed at least 12 U.S. soldiers, on August 26, 2021.

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I also want to thank the Secretary of Defense, military leadership of the Pentagon, and all the commanders in the field. There's been complete unanimity from every commander on the objectives of this mission and the best way to achieve those objectives.

Those who have served through the ages have drawn inspiration from the book of Isaiah, when the Lord says, "Whom shall I send? Who shall go for us?" The American military's been answering for a long time: "Here I am, Lord. Send me. Here I am, send me."

[[[[TEXT CHECK: In context, God has appeared to the prophet Isaiah and is calling him to announce judgment to the kingdom of Judah for their sins. Chapter 6 in its entirety reads:

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his

Joe Biden Likens Military To Isaiah 6:8 / God Calling A Prophet

Rev. Canon Dr. Esau McCaulley, Wheaton professor and author of the book "Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope," examines the Beatitudes during a speech at the 2020 "Just Gospel" conference. 
 
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Jesus' most famous address, known in [inaudible] as the Sermon on the Mount, it's recorded in Matthew 5 to 7. There's the place for the Christian to turn to for a way to witness in a world divided and torn by sin. This is it. 
 
I want to focus on a few things and what Jesus says about the desire for justice and the work of justice to us disciples. We open our reflections on the political witness with [Martin Luther] King's activities in Birmingham and a justification for his presence there is simply this: "Injustice is here." He goes on to cite biblical characters who have moved to aid those in need. This only begs the question: why did Paul or Isaiah or Amos care about injustice? And I think Jesus undergirds the reason why in these two Beatitudes. 
 
"Blessed are those who grieve, for they will be comforted. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be filled." To mourn involves being saddened by the state of the world. To mourn is to care. 
 
Yesterday I was not on social media until the very end of the day. And we are continually bombarded with crisis after crisis. And so by the time I logged onto social media in any significant way, we were hours from an execution in my home state of Alabama. Man, I'm no expert on the death penalty, and there's a case unfolding before me, and my initial instinct was to say "I don't have the emotional energy for this right now." 
 
And I think that we can be so bombarded by this endless stream of pain that is paraded before us. That the natural instinct is to say "I've done enough." And we can create this little circle where we can shut ourselves off from the pain in the world and care about our families. 
 
But mourning calls upon all of us to recognize our own complicity in the sufferings of others. It's precisely our apathy, our desires, our greeds, our lusts that allows us to exploit others. A theology of mourning allows us never to have the privilege of saying "I don't care." We never put the interest of our families or our country over the suffering of the world. 
 
Mourning is the intuition that things are not right, that more is possible. Our political leaders throng on our desires, to convince us that utopia is possible here and they alone can provide it. And mourning sees through that. 
 
I think the Christian then lives with a certain joyful sorrow. We can't fix everything. I find myself recognizing that I can't become an expert on an issue sufficiently to comment upon and then propose the solution as it comes to me. But I have realized that I can always pray. So when I saw the brother and his story, I prayed. 
 
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Rev. Canon Dr. Esau McCaulley, Wheaton professor and author of the book "Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope," examines the Beatitudes during a speech at the 2020 "Just Gospel" conference.

—TRANSCRIPT—

Jesus' most famous address, known in [inaudible] as the Sermon on the Mount, it's recorded in Matthew 5 to 7. There's the place for the Christian to turn to for a way to witness in a world divided and torn by sin. This is it.

I want to focus on a few things and what Jesus says about the desire for justice and the work of justice to us disciples. We open our reflections on the political witness with [Martin Luther] King's activities in Birmingham and a justification for his presence there is simply this: "Injustice is here." He goes on to cite biblical characters who have moved to aid those in need. This only begs the question: why did Paul or Isaiah or Amos care about injustice? And I think Jesus undergirds the reason why in these two B

Has Esau McCaulley Finally Unlocked The Real Meaning Of Matthew 5:4?

Brad Cooper, Lead Pastor of Culture + Direction at NewSpring Church, a multisite megachurch in the Carolinas, introduces a worship event celebrating Juneteenth 2021. 
 
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HYKENG PAUL: My name is Hykeng. This is my brother, my pastor and my friend Brad Cooper. And we're just excited to welcome you to "Freedom: A Celebration Of Juneteenth." And we believe that God has some amazing things in store for us tonight. 
 
What we want for you to know is that the theme of the night comes from Galatians 5:1 where it says that "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free." And we're grateful for that and we're gonna worship him for that. So as an ordinary family, a part of NewSpring Church, we're gonna do this together as one big family. 
 
BRAD COOPER: Yeah. So welcome. We're so pumped that you're here with us, and you know, the great thing about freedom, the freedom that Jesus bought us, is that that freedom is really an answer to his prayer. 
 
He said [in Matthew 6:10] when we pray, pray like this. Pray: "God, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." And Juneteenth is a manifestation of that kingdom coming. 
 
When men and women get to walk in freedom here because of what Christ has purchased for us in the unseen realm, it's a powerful thing. So we've been looking forward to tonight. And I want to fix our eyes, that's the freedom we've come from, but I want to fix our eyes on the freedom we're going to be marching into for all eternity. We get this from Revelation 7:9. Around here we call it the Revelation 7:9- 
 
TOGETHER: Finish line. 
 
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Brad Cooper, Lead Pastor of Culture + Direction at NewSpring Church, a multisite megachurch in the Carolinas, introduces a worship event celebrating Juneteenth 2021.

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HYKENG PAUL: My name is Hykeng. This is my brother, my pastor and my friend Brad Cooper. And we're just excited to welcome you to "Freedom: A Celebration Of Juneteenth." And we believe that God has some amazing things in store for us tonight. 

What we want for you to know is that the theme of the night comes from Galatians 5:1 where it says that "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free." And we're grateful for that and we're gonna worship him for that. So as an ordinary family, a part of NewSpring Church, we're gonna do this together as one big family.

BRAD COOPER: Yeah. So welcome. We're so pumped that you're here with us, and you know, the great thing about freedom, the freedom that Jesus bought us, is that that freedom is really an answer to his prayer. 

He said [in Matthew 6:10] when we pray, pr

SC Megachurch Pastor On Matthew 6:10: "Juneteenth Is A Manifestation Of That Kingdom Coming"

Beth Moore preaches a Mother's Day sermon at Texas's Lakepointe Church. Senior pastor Josh Howerton said hers was one of the three most profound Bible teaching experiences he has had in his life. 
 
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[Reading from Numbers 11, Moses says to God:] "Did I conceive these people? Did I give them birth, so that you should tell me, carry them at your breast as a nanny carries a baby, to the land you swore to their fathers?" 
 
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[The] metaphor is not new, but a whole different tone to it here in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2...We're going to talk about mothers. We're going to talk about mothering. But I want you to understand with me that we're going to see it in two applications: in both the domestic family, and by that, I mean your household. I mean your extended family that is close by, whoever you operate in life with as your people. And by that I mean whether they are blood-related to you or not, but this is your household. These are your people, your domestic family. 
 
But I also want you to think on track with the church family, because, actually, he's using the metaphor in terms of the church family. It's just that it so beautifully applies to what goes on in our own homes, particularly in our mothering. And then you see later in the passage with fathering, but I want you to think in both terms the entire time we are in this message this morning, because one will always apply to the other. 
 
So there's the domestic family under your roof or close to your roof. This would be, I didn't use the word "nuclear," because a lot of our homes may not have both parents and then the children. There may be single parents, there may be uh step-parents, there may be families that are raising their grandchildren or raising someone else's child that is not able to attend to them through those years and be able to be an on hands-on parent to them. Whatever it might be. It may be fostering, it could be all sorts of scenarios, but it is home. It is the domestic family. And then the church family is not temporal, it's eternal. 
 
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And so in this beautiful pair of verses, and I'm talking about there in seven and eight, here's the gorgeousness of it, that it applies to mothers in the domestic family but it also applies to mothering in the church family. Now this is where this gets interesting, and you have to hang with me, because what is happening here is that Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy are comparing how they minister to them as mothering and fathering. 
 
So what I'm telling you is that what it takes to have a healthy family in our domestic household is the same thing that it takes in our church family. That there's got to be this nurturing of this mother-father kind of thing, and it's coming. He's a man and he's talking about "We loved you as a mother. We loved you as a father." 
 
So here's the beautiful part of it. If you are in any kind of leadership, any kind of mentoring in the faith, you're just raising up some people, you're a head of a small group, you're a head of a life group, whatever it may be, you are called to mothering. Man or woman, you're called to this kind of mothering. It is essential for the household of faith. It is essential for the household of the domestic family. 
 
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Beth Moore preaches a Mother's Day sermon at Texas's Lakepointe Church. Senior pastor Josh Howerton said hers was one of the three most profound Bible teaching experiences he has had in his life.

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[Reading from Numbers 11, Moses says to God:] "Did I conceive these people? Did I give them birth, so that you should tell me, carry them at your breast as a nanny carries a baby, to the land you swore to their fathers?"

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[The] metaphor is not new, but a whole different tone to it here in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2...We're going to talk about mothers. We're going to talk about mothering. But I want you to understand with me that we're going to see it in two applications: in both the domestic family, and by that, I mean your household. I mean your extended family that is close by, whoever you operate in life with as your people. And by that I mean whether they are blood-related to you or not, but this is your household. These are your people, your domestic family.


Beth Moore: 1 Thessalonians 2:8 Shows All Church Leaders "You Are Called To Mothering"

Greg Thornbury, former president of The King's College, says Christians like Al Mohler (of his alma mater SBTS) have adopted postmodern hermeneutics by defying coronavirus lockdowns at their churches in this conversation with Warren Throckmorton in October 2020. 
 
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AL MOHLER [video clip]: When we see an order not to worship the one true and living God, with the church ordered not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together...we've got to call it what it is and we've got to resist. 
 
WARREN THROCKMORTON: All right, so there's your old friend Al Mohler. What'd you think about that? 
 
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GREG THORNBURY: It seems incredibly disingenuous to create this clause for you "We obey the government whenever it's something we want the government to do, but it is incredibly convenient for us to disobey the government and find some other passage in scripture to justify when we don't want to obey what the government is doing." 
 
And this is the madness that is created by ransacking the Bible for illustrations, the exact thing we were taught not to do in hermeneutics classes in seminary, where we were taught about authorial intent. So it's the people that used to talk about objective truth and authorial intent are now postmodern relativists when it comes to textual interpretation, that you can basically justify whatever you want to do based upon some text description. 
 
By the way, I would not be going to Daniel, Mishael, Hananiah and Azariah [referring to an example from the Mohler video]. Those were their Hebrew names, not Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. It's not culturally appropriate to call them by those names. 
 
I mean, what's the actual story of the book of Daniel and Jeremiah? It's that they loved being in Babylon! Look at Jeremiah 29, the famous passage that everybody writes in their yearbook in high school. "For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD. Plans to prosper you, to give you a future and hope." Nobody remembers the context of that. The context is YHWH speaking to the exiles in Babylon, and he says [v. 9], "Seek the good of the city in which you have found yourself, for in the city's well-being and prosperity you will find your own happiness." 
 
So actually, the exiles loved being in Babylon, which is only proved further by reading Ezra and Nehemiah in which we find that no one wanted to go back to Jerusalem! When the order, the decree, it was a bunch of half-wits and miscontents that hobbled back there, and Zerubbabel who was the governor that was originally put back in Jerusalem, he disappears halfway through the narrative. Where does he go? He went back to Babylon! 
 
So this notion that there's this vast gulf fixed between secular culture, the well-being of secular culture and the health and well-being of our neighbors, vs. us doing whatever the hell we want to do in our own churches, public health ordinances be damned, is so curious and twisty and perverse, that one hardly knows how to begin and end with this sort of gymnastics that it takes to get on board with this sort of thing textually, exegetically, philosophically, etc. 
 
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Greg Thornbury, former president of The King's College, says Christians like Al Mohler (of his alma mater SBTS) have adopted postmodern hermeneutics by defying coronavirus lockdowns at their churches in this conversation with Warren Throckmorton in October 2020.

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AL MOHLER [video clip]: When we see an order not to worship the one true and living God, with the church ordered not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together...we've got to call it what it is and we've got to resist.

WARREN THROCKMORTON: All right, so there's your old friend Al Mohler. What'd you think about that?

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GREG THORNBURY: It seems incredibly disingenuous to create this clause for you "We obey the government whenever it's something we want the government to do, but it is incredibly convenient for us to disobey the government and find some other passage in scripture to justify when we don't want to obey what the government is doing." 

And this is the madness that is created by rans

Gregory Alan Thornbury: Jeremiah 29:7 Means Churches Can't Defy Public Health Ordinances

Rev. Dr. Dennis R. Edwards speaks at Lincoln Christian University's 2020 James D. Strauss Worldview Lectureship, in a speech propagating liberation theology. Elsewhere in the speech, Edwards cites liberal theologians such as Howard Thurman (a universalist mystic) and Willie Jennings (queer-affirming and pro-animism) to argue that marginalized and oppressed groups "possess unique power to demonstrate the way of Christ," and majority-culture Christians must follow their teaching. 
 
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First Corinthians 1:26-29 [NRSV]: "Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God." 
 
So what Paul tells the Corinthians there about how God operates and how he was at work in their own community as Christians and how he would describe his own ministry, not being one of impressive speech but of a demonstration of the gospel's power, of the Spirit's power. That notion is one that actually carries throughout the whole Bible. God is always using the people that we tend to overlook and think are unimportant or insignificant, who are not the power brokers in the eyes of the world. He uses those people to show the world what he's really like. That tendency still continues. 
 
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The power of diaspora people is a power that comes from being marginalized. It's a power from being on the outside, just like those people that Paul is describing in Corinth. The weak of the world. That's part of what it means to be diaspora people. 
 
So I got into this idea of diaspora people. As I think about it, I considered this scene from the blockbuster movie "Black Panther"...When King T'challa is incapacitated, his queen mother, his sister, their spy, played by Lupita Nyong'o, and Agent Ross, who's a CIA agent, they all come to M'baku to get help from the Jabari tribe. And as they come before him, kind of humbled and broken in their situation, right away, Agent Ross starts to talk and explain the situation. And M'Baku starts to pound his staff and bark, and then the Jabari tribe barks so loudly that Agent Ross has to stop talking. 
 
So I wanted to get up in the theater and cheer and shout and jump, because that's like my life in reverse, because I don't know how many times white people have figured they could speak over, for, or around me. Even if I have education and experience and access to the same that they have, there's a sense that, of course, we center the white voice. That's the person who has authority in those situations. And so, in some ways, Agent Ross speaking up right away is what everybody would expect. And M'Baku and the Jabari tribe shut him down and I felt like, "Ooh, this is, I want to pay attention to this." 
 
Because there are a lot of contexts, including the Christian church in America, where the Christian faith of white people of European descent, is the standard. The faith of marginalized people is respected only to the degree in which it affirms white superiority. But what picture of Christianity is most like that of Christ? What is most like what we just saw in 1 Corinthians? 
 
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Rev. Dr. Dennis R. Edwards speaks at Lincoln Christian University's 2020 James D. Strauss Worldview Lectureship, in a speech propagating liberation theology. Elsewhere in the speech, Edwards cites liberal theologians such as Howard Thurman (a universalist mystic) and Willie Jennings (queer-affirming and pro-animism) to argue that marginalized and oppressed groups "possess unique power to demonstrate the way of Christ," and majority-culture Christians must follow their teaching.

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First Corinthians 1:26-29 [NRSV]: "Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God."

So what Paul tells the Corinthians ther

Lincoln Christian University Lecture Links 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 To "Black Panther" Barking Scene

Jonathan Leeman, editorial director for 9Marks, says "identity politics," explicitly including critical race theory, help Christians understand the Bible better during a lecture at the 2020 T4G conference. The name of the concept he relates to Jer. 64:6 is Interest Convergence. 
 
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Identity politics does not offer an alternative truth to the Bible, but it does point to people's experiences, which sometimes might help us to see things that are in our Bible a little better, a little more clearly. Let me give you an illustration. I'm sure I must have read Psalm 55:21 a number of times over the years. Here it is: "His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords." But I don't know that I ever gave much thought to that particular verse, at least until one day, or over a period of time, I found myself involved in a marital counseling situation with a verbally abusive husband + an abused wife. 
 
Now with me + the other pastors involved in this, this man's speech was "smooth as better." It was "softer than oil." So, frankly, it was easy to believe him. His wife would describe how awful things were at home, but then we would listen to him + say, "What, him? Really?" Meanwhile, this wife knew all too well that, according to the verse, there was "war" in her husband's heart + that his words were not soft oil. They were "drawn swords," and it took the pastors a while to figure that out and how bad it was. Gratefully, by God's grace, we eventually did. I remember one day a counselor showed her Psalm 55:21, and she could say, "That's it. God gets it. Even when my pastors don't get it, God gets it." And through hearing her experience, that verse actually helps me now understand the perspective of an abused or oppressed woman in a way, frankly, until I had gone through that experience, I just didn't. 
 
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Let me remind you of a few verses from scripture about sin. Psalm 51:5: "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me." Or Isaiah 64:6: "All of us have become like one who is unclean and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags." Or Jeremiah 17:9: "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond pure; who can understand it?" 
 
I confess I am a little surprised when Christians get defensive around some of the topics highlighted by identity politics, because as these three verses teach us, our doctrine of sin affirms that were sinful at birth + that we sin pervasively. Not that we're as bad as we can be but that it touches every area of our lives + that our sin deceives us. 
 
Listen again, Psalm 51:5: "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me." Now, I don't want to charge that little white boy in the suburbs eating a four-square meal with racism per se, but if he is indeed sinful at birth, is it not least worth considering the possibility that he'll structure his life in order to give advantage to himself + become sinfully partial toward whatever groups he occupies, from his high school vs. other high schools, from the nation he lives in to other nations, to his socioeconomic class compared to other classes, to his skin color vs. other skin colors? To me that seems like a pretty basic application of Psalm 51. 
 
Or Isaiah 64, again: "All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags." So when a critical race theorist comes along + says that white people pass laws like the Civil Rights Act not out of altruism but out of self-interest, well, on the one hand I want to affirm common grace + the fact that non-Christians certainly can love + certainly do desire to do justice, but I also want to affirm total depravity + say, "Yeah. Of course. Even our righteous acts are filthy rags." 
 
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We as Christians should be willing to admit that maybe, just maybe, we are more self-interested + less loving than we think, even as we give ourselves doctors' notes that say "Racism-Free." Let me be clear about this. I'm not asking you to think about government policy, at least not in the first instance. I'm asking you to think about the posture of our hearts as Christians. So not policy, the posture of heart. That's the conversation I'm trying to have here. 
 
And friends, identity politics is an unexpected ally because it asks us for at least a moment to view people within their group identity + to ask whether they've been oppressed or at least under-recognized, under-loved, under-affirmed, under-encouraged, under-promoted in comparison to people who look like us. It's an ally because it reminds us that we're sinful from birth, Psalm 51, it wears camouflage, Isaiah 64, and it deceives us, Jeremiah 17. Elements of identity politics that is to say helps us to affirm the very doctrine of sin that we affirm. 
 
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Jonathan Leeman: Isaiah 64:6 Supports Critical Race Theory's Interest Convergence Concept

During Biola University's 2020 MLK Jr. chapel, pastor Albert Tate links "The Lion King" to Isaiah 65:25 and reads modern race relations into the famous biblical image of lion and lamb laying down together. 
 
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Second thing is we need a new way of living. A new way of living. "♪ When I was a young warthog ♪..." I don't know where that came from. Sometimes music just comes out of me. It's very interesting. My kids hate it. You know what, the young warthog. "Lion King," everybody seen "Lion King"? So you got Pumbaa, the warthog. You got Timon, who was the meerkat. Parenthetically, what in the world is a meerkat? I have no idea. And then you got Simba, the lion. And you just got this famous scene with them walking. And singing: 
 
"♪ Hakuna matata, for the rest of my days ♪ 
♪ It means no worries, oh, for ♪" 
 
That's the soul version. You got Simba, the lion, Timon the meerkat, and Pumbaa, warthog. What in the world are they doing together, and how does this work? And, you know, uh, why aren't they dead? You know what I'm saying? Because a lion eats cats and warthogs. Warthogs and meerkats run away from lions. How is it that they are kicking it and have become a beloved community? How is that possible? 
 
Well, Simba, the lion, has to become a vegetarian. And the warthog and the meerkat have to have courage. Courage not to run. And the lion has to sacrifice for the greater good of the community and say, "My natural proclivity towards power and authority, I will deny and sacrifice, so that I might walk with my brothers." 
 
Oooh! The Lion King is preaching up in here! 
 
Do you see what I'm getting at? If you get it early, I won't have to preach as long. Do you see what I'm trying to say? I'm saying if we're going to have a beloved community, we've got to make sacrifices. 
 
If we're gonna be in the body of Christ, have you ever thought about the reality and the difference between the lion and lamb? And how we possess both lion and lamb because our father, Jesus Christ, is both lion and lamb? How would you, the lion and lamb, come together? They have no business being together. You got a lion and a lamb, one eats the other, one runs from the other. The lion has to become vegetarian and the lamb has to become courageous. 
 
What I'm saying is in order for us to experience this beloved community, lions who are used to having authority and power and control, you gotta sacrifice and become a vegetarian. And the appetite that you have for dominance, you have to deny for the sake of greater community. 
 
For the sheep that would normally run and hide, because they've been taught from the day that they were born that they are inferior to the lion, they are less than, they are not worthy, so instead of running in fear when opportunity comes, you sit confidently at the table and you have courage as you sit in a room full of lions. And you say, "I belong here, just like you. I don't care how society sees me, I don't care how other people see me, I don't even look how I see myself. I'm a sheep, but I deserve to be in this classroom with this lion." I mean, not classroom, I didn't mean class, but you, this space. 
 
You want beloved community to really work? Whites have to become a vegetarian to their privilege. And sacrifice privilege for the sake of the whole. And minorities have to overcome the lies that we are less than, that we carry shame, that we are not worthy, that we don't belong. And we have to be bold and courageous and say, "I belong at this table, because I was made in God's image, just like you, lion. And although we have a culture where the deck is stacked towards one side, I will sit at this table and by the cross of Jesus Christ, this table will be balanced for His glory." 
 
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During Biola University's 2020 MLK Jr. chapel, pastor Albert Tate links "The Lion King" to Isaiah 65:25 and reads modern race relations into the famous biblical image of lion and lamb laying down together.

--TRANSCRIPT--

Second thing is we need a new way of living. A new way of living. "♪ When I was a young warthog ♪..." I don't know where that came from. Sometimes music just comes out of me. It's very interesting. My kids hate it. You know what, the young warthog. "Lion King," everybody seen "Lion King"? So you got Pumbaa, the warthog. You got Timon, who was the meerkat. Parenthetically, what in the world is a meerkat? I have no idea. And then you got Simba, the lion. And you just got this famous scene with them walking. And singing:

"♪ Hakuna matata, for the rest of my days ♪
♪ It means no worries, oh, for ♪"

That's the soul version. You got Simba, the lion, Timon the meerkat, and Pumbaa, warthog. What in the world are they doing together, and how does this work? And, you know, u

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