Here's some more verses you can look up on this issue.
Romans 10:12
1 Samuel 16:7
Jude 1:19
John 13:35
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Just stop
I wanted to use the blog to address a big issue I'm seeing a lot of lately. Earlier this year I was accused of being racist by people who didn't really know me. I am not prejudiced or racist in any way. When I was little we stayed in motels often while my dad was on transfer and at one point I was playing with a kid of darker skin pigmentation than my own. I was asked by other kids why I did so. To me he was a person plain and simple. A few years ago I was called racist for not voting for Obama. For those who may have pay careful attention to what I'm about to say. I calmly explained to the disbelieving woman I didn't agree with anything he stood for his skin color had nothing to do with my choice. See for a Christian we're not given the option to discriminate against others by skin tone because God created us all. Those that know my family and friends will find a wide variety of different skin tones, races and unique people. John 3:16 says God so loved the WORLD! The word World doesn't exclude anyone. He didn't send his son to die for only one group over the other. "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life." Nobody was left out. Philippians 2:9-11 "Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor, and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." That right there establishes that all lives matter. In Matthew 28:19 Jesus doesn't give us a choice of who to interact with. "Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit." All means all. If you study the life of Jesus he interacted and spent time with Jews and Gentiles. Gentiles would be any of us who are not Jews. The apostle Paul went all over the world preaching gospel proving all lives matter to God. In Acts 10 Peter has a vision and is told by God to go interact with a Gentile and he learned from it. Acts 10:28 "Peter told him; `You know it is against our laws for a Jewish man to enter a Gentile home like this or to associate with you. But God has shown me that I should no longer think of anyone as impure or unclean.'" James 2:1-13 deals in depth with prejudice. Like I said the Christian has no room to be racist. They're all people. I watched an interview with Morgan Freeman and Mike Wallace tried to ask him about Black History Month. Mr. Freeman said he didn't need a month because Black history was American history. He was then asked about racism. "You want to know how to end racism you stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man." I was talking this past Sunday to Aaron Paris our life group coordinator about all this and he mentioned seeing this thing where a guy said you describe multicolored cows as simply that cows. There's nothing in science that proves one color of skin makes us any more or less a human. when doctors work on us they see people who bleed the same red color. Christian musicians DC Talk have a song they do called Colored People and when they introduce it they refer to God as a masterful artist having an amazing palette of paint. If you treat people different from you simply as another person and not create judgments on skin you eliminate a lot of problems. This past Saturday I was at the Bill Miller's on Ayers and this older man was ordering before me and he asked the cashier if she was still in high school. She said she had four kids and was in her 30's and wasn't married. The he told her it was a good thing she was never with a gringo because her kids would be tainted. No sir the kids, the cashier and you are still people that matter to God and your comments are the result of a sin problem.
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