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A Pastor’s Prescription for Overcoming Victim Mentality

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🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Last August, as Americans watched the fallout from a police shooting in Kenosha, Wis., pastor James E. Ward Jr. found himself in a position to help. The victim, Jacob Blake, had been shot seven times in the back. Violence erupted in Kenosha. Ward, pastor and founder of INSIGHT Church in the north Chicago suburb of Skokie, Ill., turned to prayer. “I get this phone call on my cellphone from Julia Jackson,” Ward tells The Daily Signal. “Julia Jackson is one of our faithful intercessory-prayer team members in our church. Julia happens to be the mother of Jacob Blake Jr. … And we prayed that Jacob would live and not die. And we’re thankful that he’s alive today, and he’s doing well.” The shooting left Blake paralyzed below the waist. Yet both Jackson, Blake’s mother, and Ward, her pastor, decided “to speak a different narrative. We weren’t calling for a hatred. We weren’t calling for destruction. We’re calling for peace and speaking the love of God over the city. And it really went viral.” Ward rejects “victim mentality” and ideologies like critical race theory. He purposefully took a different approach from Black Lives Matter and found himself working with President Donald Trump last year. Now, he’s preaching this “new attitude” in a book called “Zero Victim.” Ward visited The Daily Signal to discuss “Zero Victim: Overcoming Injustice With a New Attitude” and his experience in Kenosha last year.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, June 21st.

0:09.4

I'm Robert Blueey and I'm Doug Blair.

0:11.8

On today's show, we feature Rob's interview with Pastor James Ward, Jr.

0:16.0

He talked about his new book Zero Victim and how he's helping the family of Jacob Blake

0:20.3

in the aftermath of last year's police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

0:24.1

We also read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about a Seattle woman

0:28.0

who beat her drug addiction and turned her life around.

0:30.8

Before we get to today's show, Rob and I want to talk to you about a new resource on the Heritage

0:34.9

Foundation website to combat critical race theory.

0:37.6

Critical race theory or CRT makes race the centerpiece of all aspects of American life.

0:42.8

It categorizes individuals into groups of oppressors and victims.

0:46.8

The idea is infiltrating everything from politics and education to the workplace and even our

0:51.9

military. Heritage has pulled together the resources that you need to identify CRT in your community.

0:58.1

And the ways to fight it.

0:59.6

We also have a legislation tracker so you can see what's happening in your state.

1:03.2

Go ahead and visit heritage.org slash CRT to learn more.

1:07.0

Now stay tuned for today's show coming up next.

1:15.5

We are joined on the Daily Signal Podcast today by Pastor James Ward, Jr.

1:19.8

He's the author of the book Zero Victim Overcoming Injustice with a new attitude.

1:25.4

Pastor, thanks so much for being with us on the show today.

1:28.0

Hey Rob, it's really an honor, sir.

1:30.1

Thanks for the opportunity.

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