Welcome to the conversation the St that matter podcast. My name is John Harris. This is the third

and final episode of a three-part series where I've been reviewing the book, The Very Good Gospel,

up by Lisa Sharon Harper. I thought that I was done.

But I keep getting on different tracks and hopefully this is helpful for you all.

As I go through them somewhat slowly and also in some ways sometimes I try to

repeat myself to make a point like five different ways so that it's more

understandable so I'm hoping that that's been helpful for you all. I want to finish up with an

application here of what we've already gone over. So just to quickly review we talked

about how Lisa Sharon Harper adds law to grace, social justice

infused law, she combines man's actions with political activism, really

political activist actions with the gospel and says that's the gospel.

And then in that manipulative technique that she uses, where Christians are now thinking they

have to do some kind of BLM march or something to be truly Christians and have the

gospel. She then places blame and the original sin on the systemic impersonal

hegemony of sorts that exists and is located in Western culture and in America in particular.

And that's where sins coming from and that can be the disparities that exist, the problems that exist,

even down to things like gaining weight in some

scenarios and divorces and personal choices people make, it's the result of this systemic

sin that exists. And so she gives some biblical examples she thinks supports that but

she has to take things out of context or impose things upon the text. What we're

going to talk about today is getting more into the nitty gritty.

We're gonna talk about how this works,

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