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A review by missy_littell
Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
4.0
"Many white people would rather do something to address the symptoms we can see than acknowledge our original sin. Racism isn't only a part of who we've been, it is in ways we don't even comprehend, who we are. It has cut us to our very core."
"I prayed for freedom for 20 years," Frederick Douglas would later write, "but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
"One in three African American boys born after 2000 would experience incarceration."
"In the Greek of the new testament, church is Ekklesia, "the called out ones," to be called out of the patterns and practices of this world's sinful and broken systems into the economy of God's grace is to become church. To participate in an institution called church that nevertheless reinforces this world's broken systems, is something far more cynical."
Luke 4:18 and 19, "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." If this was Jesus' first sermon, what does it tell us about the priorities of his earthly ministry and how should it shape our vision of what we are doing as a church?
"Daniel (from the Bible) was arrested for civil disobedience when he defied an unjust law."
"Our hearts grow through daily personal practices...the biggest thing you can do is shut up and listen."
"I prayed for freedom for 20 years," Frederick Douglas would later write, "but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
"One in three African American boys born after 2000 would experience incarceration."
"In the Greek of the new testament, church is Ekklesia, "the called out ones," to be called out of the patterns and practices of this world's sinful and broken systems into the economy of God's grace is to become church. To participate in an institution called church that nevertheless reinforces this world's broken systems, is something far more cynical."
Luke 4:18 and 19, "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." If this was Jesus' first sermon, what does it tell us about the priorities of his earthly ministry and how should it shape our vision of what we are doing as a church?
"Daniel (from the Bible) was arrested for civil disobedience when he defied an unjust law."
"Our hearts grow through daily personal practices...the biggest thing you can do is shut up and listen."