Foreign Territory: Walking Out Biblical Reconciliation As A (POC) Person of Color
Season 1: Episode 7
Often times, as women of color we may hold on to a guarded or self-protective attitude around racial reconciliation. Thinking that the majority culture owes us, or must demonstrate x, y, z thing before I act as a reconciler. Or maybe it’s holding on to an attitude of frustration and anger over legitimate hurts that prevents us from stepping out as a reconciler. We ask ourselves, why should I stick my neck out as a peace-maker where I feel wronged?
Episode Highlights
What is reconciliation and how does the Bible define it?
We are ultimately God’s good creation, fallen to the state of unholy sinners, reconciled-- by the work of Christ on our behalf-- to a holy God. (OT)
Because of the work of Christ reconciling us to God, we are now given the ministry of reconciliation, both to God and to our neighbor. (NT)
The image of a cross is an illustration of this, it reaches from God down to us and reaches across from one man to another. The sign of the cross is the whole picture of reconciliation. (NT)
Biblical Context:
Old Covenant:
New Covenant:
Application for Daily Life:
When we sinned and separated ourselves from God, we wronged HIM, and yet HE crossed the distance to sacrificially pursue us for reconciliation. We then, follow the example of Christ in our own lives and areas of pursuing racial reconciliation.
Remember 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 when you are walking out racial reconciliation-- love isn’t easily offended. It keeps no record of wrong. When we can faithfully entrust our hurts to Jesus, we don’t have to hold on to them as part of what defines us.
There is a place for speaking the truth in love. But we have to ask ourselves, are we speaking God’s truth or our own self-justifying truth?
We cannot do this ourselves. We cannot do this outside of having the mind of Christ.
