Crossing the Racial Divide | Erwin McManus with Chris Simmons and Gerald Davis

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Pastor Erwin hosted a powerful conversation on how we can be a part of the solution to racial inequality with Chris Simmons and Gerald Davis. Chris and Gerald are pastors at Cornerstone Baptist Church, the Church Pastor Erwin founded previous to Mosaic. Chris Simmons started the conversation by emphasizing the importance of building strong foundations as a Church. When foundations are built well, the building goes up easily.

They discussed the practical ways Cornerstone Baptist Church has met the needs of their community over the years. Pastor Erwin shared that he saw how systemic racism caused those who needed the most help to have to work the hardest and pay the most for high-quality food, education, and housing.

Pastor Erwin explained that he would pray that God would give him the ability to speak at the Cornerstone Church and give high-quality teaching. He felt this was his role in contributing quality to an environment that was at times given the lowest quality of many things. Pastor Erwin explained that moving forward, people in power have to chose to diversify their leadership.

“People don’t really care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
-Chris Simmons

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"Crossing the Racial Divide" message recorded on July 22, 2020 during Team Night on MOSAIC:ONLINE.

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0:00.0	Mosaic, I am so excited for tonight's team night. I have two really, really special guests. They're very special friends and a lot of you who know my journey know that before I lived in Los Angeles I lived in Dallas.
0:18.8	Kim and I did and up to Aaron's third birthday, Mariah was born into Alice, and I was the pastor of a church called Cornerstone.
0:30.0	And before I left Cornerstone, there was an amazing individual named Chris Simmons who became a part of our community and he actually replaced me as senior pastor of Cornerstone and then Gerald Davis is another incredible human being that I met,
0:45.6	and we brought on our team at Cornerstone and made him the Associate Pastor over outreach
0:49.9	of Angelism.
0:51.6	And to this day, over 30 years later they're both still at
0:56.1	Cornerstone in the same exact roles that didn't even change their titles and
1:00.1	today I have with you, Pastures, Chris, and Gerald.
1:04.0	Guys, it's such an honor to have you here with me.
1:07.0	Great to see you.
1:08.0	Well, great, thank you so much,
1:10.0	Pastor Erwin and thank you, I know,
1:14.0	thank you Mosé for having us.
1:13.0	Amen, thank you so much for having this well.
1:15.0	Awesome.
1:16.0	Chris, I want you to take a moment
1:18.0	and we're going to kind of start with you
1:20.0	because you and I were to direct the Tontas.
1:24.0	And maybe I'll tell a little bit of the story
1:26.7	that you may not know as well,
1:28.2	but you may hopefully have forgotten.
1:30.5	But tell everyone a little bit about yourself, your family, and your role there at
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