Thanks for listening to another week of the Ask Pastor John podcast as we close out the

week here.

We get a lot of really good questions via email and of course you can send those questions

to me at Ask Pastor John at DesiringGod.org and a number of those email questions have come

in on the Black Lives Matter movement.

Pastor John, I'll just put this topic out there for now.

I mean, talk to us about the Black Lives Matter movement.

What can we learn from it and what have you learned from it?

One of the main things to learn from the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement is the

need to distinguish between one, the plain truth of the slogan, two, the ideological nature

of its origin, and three, the strategies of action that it unleashes on the street.

We need to distinguish those when we talk about this.

Now, you would think after wrestling with these things for 40 years, these ethnic racial, social

dynamics, after 40 years, that this would be more obvious to me, those distinctions.

But they weren't.

I had to be corrected.

So another thing to learn besides those distinctions is no matter how long you've been

at this, like me.

No matter how long you've been at this, thinking about the issue, talking about it, writing

about it, you can easily fall into unhelpful ways of thinking or talking, which is why ongoing

friendships across ethnic lines is important.

Conversations embedded in friendships is ongoingly important.

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