Tag: race and Christian identity

Living From Offense to Offense

.Reading time 6 minutes.

“So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  When Christ who […]

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Christ Saved My Life

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Christ saved my life from stereotypes. “In Him, “I am a new creature and all things become new” (Second Corinthians 5.17).  I am not more of the same old colored people, another addition to the racial group.  I am not another number, added into the racial majority or minority. Christ saved my life from prejudice. […]

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The Theological Problem of Race

.Reading time 4 minutes.

“For ‘In him we live and move and have our being.’” ~ Acts 17.28, NRSV Persons may wonder how I can talk about race the way that I do.  For me, it is a matter of allegiance.  I recognized some time ago that I could not serve God and believe in race.  I had to […]

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Never Be The Same

.Reading time 5 minutes.

“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” ~ Galatians 2.19-20, NRSV We call ourselves baptized […]

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I am a new creature

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In Christ, I begin again. Old time is gone, no longer to be seen again. New time is present. I need only to attend to it, to attest to it. I am here and I am right now. I am a new creature. In Christ, I begin again. A stereotype is a repeated identity. God […]

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