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Dr. Derwin L. Gray is the founding and lead pastor of Transformation Church (TC). Tranformation Church is a multiethnic, multigenerational, mission-shaped community in the Charlotte, North Caolina area. Derwin and Vicki have been married for twenty-eight years and have two adult children. Derwin is mostrar más the author of the bestselling book The Good Life: What Jesus Teaches About Finding ' Happiness. mostrar menos

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A good introduction to anti-racist theology from Black pastor the Rev. Dr. Derwin Gray. I debated with myself just now whether to include the adjective Black. Ultimately I decided to keep it because of Pastor Gray’s coining of the term “color-blessedness.” This term is meant to counteract the term “color-blindness” usually heard from Whites who want desperately not to be racists. However, as Gray and countless other anti-racists affirm, “color-blindness” is a falsehood, even if not an intentional lie. I was especially struck by this line on page 132: “In all my years on earth, and in twenty-plus years of ministry, I have never heard a White person say to another White person, ‘I do not see your color. I am colorblind.”

Now, as a White man, also Christian clergy, and also “woke” (in the correct sense of the term, not in the sense corrupted by the Right), and as someone who has lived as an expat for 16 years, I have a lot of awareness already. I have not achieved the goal, as the Apostle says, but I press on toward it. So in that limited sense I personally didn’t find much new here. However, if this were someone’s first anti-racist read, it would have been eye-opening. I recommend this book for that reason, and also for that Gray sticks with the matter at hand. He touches on other matters, especially political matters—how could you not in a book like this?!—yet this isn’t that by-now familiar liberal Christian (and, for that matter, secular liberal) raking of Republicans over the coals. Folk on the Right will find plenty to make them angry, since that seems to be their hobby these days, but Gray is not picking any fights. I suspect that’s because he learned the lesson he needed from chasing some racist pricks down the street that one time.
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mmodine | otra reseña | Jan 23, 2024 |
Fully half of the book unpacks the biblical rationale for racial reconciliation, for a multi-ethnic church—it was God's design all along. We see it in his covenants, in the prophets and psalms, in Jesus, and in the early church. Ethnic diversity is welcomed and sought after. The rest of the book encourages today's church in ways to love well, to mimic her savior and his cause through holy character and loving relationships. One line that stuck out to me was a conversation he had with a white gentleman. He asked him what he thought about his black fellow church members. The man said he didn't have a problem with them. Derwin's reply: "Jesus didn't say love God with your whole heart, mind, and soul, and don't have a problem with your neighbor. We're supposed to LOVE our ethnically-different neighbor."

Thought-provoking, scripturally sound, and encouraging. Can't wait for everyone to get their hands on it.
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KelleyMMathews | otra reseña | Mar 22, 2022 |

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5
Miembros
132
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#153,555
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3
ISBNs
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