YOUNG MAN: Well, how has Jesus called you? Let's talk about that. OLD LADY: Well, honey, you see, he spoke. YOUNG MAN: Oh, really? So, when did he speak to... you? OLD LADY: Well, ya know, he's God. So, guess what? YOUNG MAN: What? OLD LADY: He's amazing! You see, when he spoke to me he also spoke to you... at the same time. YOUNG MAN: What? What are you talking about? -- Oh! You mean the Bible. OLD LADY: They wrote down what he did so we could follow his example, and they wrote down what he said to do so we could do it. Pretty simple, huh? YOUNG MAN: Whatever. Now, answer my question. How has Jesus called YOU? OLD LADY: Again (and for the last time), the same way that he called you. The only difference is always: will you do what he said, or just keep arguing with those who do? "[Accordingly] the disciples did as Jesus had directed them." (Matthew 26:19 AMP)
by Abel Prudhomme, Executive Director of the S.A.L.T. (5 minute read) Is Christianity a white man's religion? Have you ever played that old game called Gossip where what you had to say began at one point in a circle of people and, by the time it got back around to the beginning, was all screwed up? That's what you have here. Leave it to mankind to mess up the great gift given by God. Of course, it began with people God selected because he's got a right to do so. Jesus was a Jew, and died at the hands of other Jews, not because they were Jews but because they were men. Later, very much later, the Gospel fell into the hands of white people. They screwed it up just like every single people on the face of the earth eventually have and will do. Thank God that he intervenes from time to time in periods of historically chronicled Revivals. The bottom line is, that racism is a problem within the roots of man's fallen heart, not his Maker's. As God does not create war but in...
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