So I've told you that I'm not in a series this fall. I'm just bringing individual messages that I feel very strongly that I need to talk about and the title of this message I have to explain it to you and you'll you'll get it in in a minute but it's called a lack of understanding a lack of

understanding and I actually brought a form of this message at the conference and what I want to do today is address racism and talk about

how the Bible addresses racism.

We have a problem in our country,

and I believe, obviously all of us know Jesus is the answer,

but I believe the reason we still have this problem today is because of the church.

I don't believe the church has taken the stand that the church needs to take.

And I want us as a church to take a stand. Now when I talk about a lack of understanding, let me show you

a scripture. Jose 4-6 says my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.

They just don't understand.

I don't think that we have really understood the depth of this problem. And so let me give you an

illustration. So here here's a water bottle, I haven't opened it, it's got water

in it, and if you all if you guys could get a close up of that

water bottle so everybody can see it at every campus. Okay, so what, I mean, there we go.

All right, so what do you see on that?

What word do you see?

Ozarka.

Everyone to see that?

Okay, I don't see that.

I don't see that. I don't see the word Ozarka is not on this side. I see the words born naturally and then I see some words that are too small to read.

Okay but we're looking at the same bottle, right? They want to write? But I'll

never see what you see unless I take the time to walk around the bottle and look

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