A Pastoral Word on our Cultural Moment

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We are all reeling from the last few months of life in America. The partisan divide between Right and Left, and the level of anger and acrimony, is at an all-time high, into the global pandemic of COVID-19, into a global recession, which so many out of work, or living in fear of a layoff, into a tipping point in the outcry over systemic racism in our country after George Floyd’s murder set off a wave of protest unlike anything in our nation’s history, where for the first time, the vast majority of the population is ready to do whatever it takes to change, into rioting and violence – the cascade effect has felt like wave after wave.

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0:00.0	Hey, Bridgetown, John Mark Comer here.
0:04.6	It was so great to see so many of you over the last week
0:08.4	at the prayer vigils, even if you were behind a mask
0:11.0	or from a distance.
0:12.0	I love you and miss you and can't wait until God willing.
0:16.2	We're all back together again.
0:18.5	As you know, three weeks ago, we hit pause on the last
0:22.5	week of the day.
0:23.5	We're all back together again.
0:25.1	As you know, three weeks ago, we hit pause
0:27.7	on our simplicity practice in order to honor the historic moment
0:31.7	that we are living through in our city and our nation
0:34.7	with Black Lives Matter.
0:36.7	The plan for next Sunday is to, again, God willing.
0:39.7	Everything has an asterisk right now.
0:41.7	But to set back into our simplicity practice,
0:44.7	but we are on the journey of racial justice for the long haul.
0:48.7	What so many leaders of color have said to me over and over
0:52.7	and over for the last few weeks in particular,
0:55.7	is what matters is less what you say and do right now.
0:59.7	And more, whether or not you are with us on the journey
1:02.7	and still in the conversation, three months from now,
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