Dynamic Voices for a Diverse Church.

This is Pass the Mic.

Greetings and God bless.

Welcome to another episode of Pass the Mic.

Dynamic Voices for a Diverse Church, powered by the Witness, a black Christian collective.

I'm your host, Tyler Burns. You can follow me on Twitter at Burns 23. Follow at your own risk. Y'all know what time it is. And joining me, as always, is the president of the witness, the man, the myth, the legend. Mr. Blue Check verified himself. Jamar Tisbee, what's going on, brother? Man, I'm charged up.

Man, I'm amped, bro.

We back.

We back.

It's been like a month.

It's been like a month since we put out of episode, right? I don't know if anybody missed us, but I know I missed you and being on the mic and having these conversations. bro, we don't see each other like every week since we've been, I don't know what you're talking about.

That's good stuff.

You know, listen, it's been a brief hiatus. It's been a brief hiatus, a bit of a break that we've taken for a couple of different reasons, number one, because it's that time of year. But also number two, because, bro, we got put in iTunes jail. Man. I put it in jail, man. Drama.

It's been nuts, bro. I referenced it at the courageous conversation in Chicago. And then Bo has put out some statements as well. But just want to give you guys a brief update on where we're at. We will be coming back to iTunes soon. Let's get into this, man. Because people have been making some statements. And before we get into these statements, I just want to tell you guys that our intent, our heart is not to be adversarial. It's not to be divisive.

But our heart is to assert places where we believe people may have gone astray. And we believe in particular that certain things ring very close

to our personal experience, but also ring very close to the heart of the gospel and the heart

of God's character. And so we have an opportunity to make some comments on the statement that

I'm sure some of you have heard about. And most of you have probably interacted with in some way, shape, or form.

And it was a statement on social justice and the gospel.

Now, this comes on the heels of a number of different blog posts by Dr. John MacArthur, who is a well-known teacher, expositor, pastor, and Dr. MacArthur wrote these

blog posts about social justice and the church. They were also followed up by sermons as well.

And so in the blog post, he basically talks about what he calls a disturbing trend or a

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