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The Beatitudes and Justice

In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says words like these: Those who mourn, who hunger and thirst for righteousness, who are merciful, who are persecuted for righteousness sake. These are descriptions of the heart of a follower of Christ, but are also actions to be taken. These descriptions all revolve around the pursuit of making relationships right. Our society does not live in right relationship. The poor are overlooked. Minorities do not receive justice. Racism is still very prevalent. Indifference pervades.

As the church - as the people of God - we cannot be silent, nor indifferent. We have been called to be salt and light in the earth for the oppressed and toward the oppressor. We are called, as Christ was called, to lift the yoke of injustice and to set at liberty those who are oppressed. We are to mourn with those who mourn and suffer for the sake of others.

We stand with the peaceable effort to make things right regarding police violence, vigilante justice, and a culture that leans heavily against African-Americans. We stand with the oppressed wanting to be heard, and recognize the need to listen and have the hard and necessary conversations that move our society out of its race-dividing past and into a race-uniting future.

We are trusting in the transformative grace of God in this process and we invite you to step into environments where we can grow in our understanding and knowledge of humanity and issues of race together as a church.

To learn our church’s strategy for pursuing racial unity, see our Fourfold Statement on Racial Relationships here: christianfellowship.com/a-fourfold-mission-for-advancing-racial-relationships/ ...

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