He spoke briefly about his book, I Ain't Comin Back and spoke a lot about race within the Christian community. If you read my blog at all, you know I've lost my Jesus, so I find speakers who talk about "Christian community" fascinating. Throw in my personal interest of urban plights and I am one captivated audience member. I could have listened to him for another 90 minutes.
On his biographical information sheet, I wrote in the margins... Not every note will become a blog entry, but most will ;) Here we go in order my notes:
- Racism no more in the body of Christ
- How is God preparing us for this?
- How do you arrive at your own answers?
- Where does compassion lead us?
- How do we bring God here now?
- Where are you running to? Where are you running from?
- We allow other things to get in the way of dealing with racism (the elephant)
- What positive influence to I give to my family?
- More to do with exposure than intelligence
- The gospel must break across historical barriers
- The problem with poor communicities is they aren't exposed to people who open up their world
- We don't have relationships. Relationships take time
- Be willing to be a learner
- Help me understand your lens.
- Planning. working. dreaming.
- people are quick work, but slow to build relationship
Our vision, whether it's at COR or in another capacity, should be to reconcile and walk together.
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