Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. My name is John Harris. If you are an evangelical elite living in the United States of America and your name is not John MacArthur, you have most likely been doing an awful lot of virtue signaling about how much you care and are deeply

concerned with the plight of black Americans living in this country because of

forces outside of their control like police brutality and systemic oppression

and discrimination and housing education etc.

You've used words like redlining and slavery and Jim Crow and maybe even a holocaust to describe

the current state of affairs in the United States.

You've signaled your support for Black Lives Matter,

maybe even marching with them, but you've been silent on their anti-Christian

positions and beliefs. You've also been silent on what's happening throughout the world as far as Christian persecution,

like in places like Nigeria where it's happening at very high rates right now,

and guess what, those people are black, but you haven't said much you haven't said much about the

skyrocketing homicide rates in areas where the police have backed off because of

well the protests that you're helping fan the flames for those Those are black people as well. You've also been

silent, relatively speaking, on abortion and the plight of black babies in this country

because of a system set up by someone who wanted specifically to

annihilate them.

Haven't said much about that.

But what you have talked about are cures for the problem of systemic oppression that involve

taking down symbols of the nation's past and figures, creating multi-ethnic spaces within churches, in other words doing what the Lord Jesus Christ

said he would do in building his church and instead of just seeking people who are unsaved and

don't know Christ and sharing the gospel with them specifically trying to

attract people of a certain caliber, a certain minority status into your church to

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