Comments on: Trayvon and the Only Solution to Racism http://visionaryfam.com/2012/03/trayvon-and-the-only-solution-to-racism/ Advancing the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a global reformation of family discipleship Mon, 20 May 2013 03:41:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Todd Green http://visionaryfam.com/2012/03/trayvon-and-the-only-solution-to-racism/#comment-573 Todd Green Wed, 09 May 2012 02:52:54 +0000 http://visionaryfam.com/?p=1145#comment-573 Here are a couple good links about racism:

http://eugenecho.com/2012/03/27/in-memory-of-shaima-alawadi-human-daughter-wife-mother-neighbor-sister-friend/

http://eugenecho.com/2012/01/17/the-day-after-defend-the-weak-rescue-the-weak-fight-for-the-weak/

My son finally got through the waiting list and made it into magnet school. So my suburban child can go to school alongside children from Hartford CT.

Thank-you God

]]> By: Todd Green http://visionaryfam.com/2012/03/trayvon-and-the-only-solution-to-racism/#comment-564 Todd Green Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:06:25 +0000 http://visionaryfam.com/?p=1145#comment-564 Hi Rob,

Thankyou for your kind thoughts. I have never worried that my bi-racial children will recieve any discrimination for their race. (I do hope that they don’t get teased for their funny looking ears that they inherited from me.)

I have long thought that Jesus is the answer to racism: the way that he interacted and spoke of Samaritans; his acknowlegement of the great faith of both the Syro-phonecian woman and of the centurian. His mandate to bring the good news to all peoples.

I also thought the Holy Spirit is the answer: A person overflowing with the fruits of the spirit can hardly be a racist. The events of pentacost are such a contrast to the tower of Babel.

It was great to see your encouragement to think of the Bible as a whole and to look to the themes of the scriptures generally. After your encouragement I thought of the horrible events of the last three chapters of Judges. These have got to be some of the most horrifying chapters in the Bible; they are all about what happens when one is a racist. I think it gives a great Biblical answer to what Racism is all about.

I think racism is a combination of two things. 1. Holding grudges; A person cannot forgive a wrong that has been perpetrated against themself (or a percieved wrong that has been perpetrated against themself); Then this person decides that an enemy has been created and they are unable to forgive that enemy. 2. Stereotyping; Once a person has decided that a wrong cannot be forgiven then this same person might become a racist if he percieves that all people that bear resemblance to the original perpetrator (or percieved perpetrator) must also be similar in nature to that original offender and they therefore deserve the same animosity as their original enemy. In the racists mind, the fault of the one enemy shows the nature of the whole group. This is what happened in the end of Judges and I think it is a model of why racism occurrs today.

Then what happens next as we work our way through our scriptures: God decides that: a Moabite! of all people! will be an anscestor of The King and ultimately the King of Kings. Awesome — Look to scripture.

BTW I once met a man that said that his people descended from Goliath; later I asked a group of Sunday School children if this man’s infamous anscestor should affect how I feal about the man. All the children said no; they thought it was strange that I even asked.

TG

]]> By: Reg http://visionaryfam.com/2012/03/trayvon-and-the-only-solution-to-racism/#comment-563 Reg Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:09:29 +0000 http://visionaryfam.com/?p=1145#comment-563 Excellent! Amen and Amen!

]]> By: Phil Kassel http://visionaryfam.com/2012/03/trayvon-and-the-only-solution-to-racism/#comment-562 Phil Kassel Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:00:07 +0000 http://visionaryfam.com/?p=1145#comment-562 Rob – GREAT post and at a very crucial time. Love seeing how God has and is using Visionary Family Ministries for His glory. Believe greater days are yet waiting for this ministry. Days that God has foreordained for such a time as this. Praying!

]]> By: Gabi Reczek http://visionaryfam.com/2012/03/trayvon-and-the-only-solution-to-racism/#comment-561 Gabi Reczek Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:54:06 +0000 http://visionaryfam.com/?p=1145#comment-561 Thanks for this thoughtful and appropriate post, Rob. We need more people in leadership to discuss this issue in the way you presented.

]]> By: Hannah Tran Dormeier http://visionaryfam.com/2012/03/trayvon-and-the-only-solution-to-racism/#comment-560 Hannah Tran Dormeier Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:52:03 +0000 http://visionaryfam.com/?p=1145#comment-560 Rob, this is a beautiful post. From a “multi-racial” (now I’m rethinking those terms, haha!) family, this is so true. I never saw my mom as white, my dad as yellow, my kid brother as black and the rest of us as something else…we were a family. We joked about it, because people outside our family made a big deal about it, but having that experience of a family just being a family made by God and put together in that unit by God was beautiful. Love your reminders here. Thanks.

]]> By: Paul Walker http://visionaryfam.com/2012/03/trayvon-and-the-only-solution-to-racism/#comment-559 Paul Walker Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:36:24 +0000 http://visionaryfam.com/?p=1145#comment-559 Nice aricle, Dr. Rienow! I, as well, find it important that the Bible was never infatuated with skin color. If anything, the skin-color battles here on earth reflect how desparate we are for Christ. May we always remember the Gospel!

-PW.

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