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🗓️ 6 May 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to another week of the Ask Pastor John podcast as we close out the |
0:08.6 | week here. |
0:09.6 | We get a lot of really good questions via email and of course you can send those questions |
0:13.4 | to me at Ask Pastor John at DesiringGod.org and a number of those email questions have come |
0:18.8 | in on the Black Lives Matter movement. |
0:22.2 | Pastor John, I'll just put this topic out there for now. |
0:25.8 | I mean, talk to us about the Black Lives Matter movement. |
0:29.4 | What can we learn from it and what have you learned from it? |
0:32.4 | One of the main things to learn from the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement is the |
0:41.6 | need to distinguish between one, the plain truth of the slogan, two, the ideological nature |
0:50.8 | of its origin, and three, the strategies of action that it unleashes on the street. |
0:58.2 | We need to distinguish those when we talk about this. |
1:01.2 | Now, you would think after wrestling with these things for 40 years, these ethnic racial, social |
1:08.2 | dynamics, after 40 years, that this would be more obvious to me, those distinctions. |
1:15.2 | But they weren't. |
1:17.2 | I had to be corrected. |
1:20.2 | So another thing to learn besides those distinctions is no matter how long you've been |
1:25.8 | at this, like me. |
1:27.8 | No matter how long you've been at this, thinking about the issue, talking about it, writing |
1:32.4 | about it, you can easily fall into unhelpful ways of thinking or talking, which is why ongoing |
1:45.4 | friendships across ethnic lines is important. |
1:51.6 | Conversations embedded in friendships is ongoingly important. |
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