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Some takeaways on CH tonight with @PastorCarlDay :
Disconnects between black millennials and the church:
1. Tradition
2. Trauma
3. Transparency
4. Truth-telling
5. Tenacity
6. Talking
Disconnects between black millennials and the church:
1. Tradition
2. Trauma
3. Transparency
4. Truth-telling
5. Tenacity
6. Talking
1. Tradition
While there’s nothing wrong with tradition, it often looks to the past.
And while understanding where you came from is essential to knowing where you’re going, our purpose in the present is not to preserve the past.
Learn from the past.
Live in the present.
While there’s nothing wrong with tradition, it often looks to the past.
And while understanding where you came from is essential to knowing where you’re going, our purpose in the present is not to preserve the past.
Learn from the past.
Live in the present.
2. Trauma
People have been hurt in and by the church.
Let’s be specific: people have been abused and had their hurt anointed by arrogant leaders.
You can’t avoid the real pain attached to that.
But you also can’t show a difference without confessing Christ as the contrast.
People have been hurt in and by the church.
Let’s be specific: people have been abused and had their hurt anointed by arrogant leaders.
You can’t avoid the real pain attached to that.
But you also can’t show a difference without confessing Christ as the contrast.
3. Transparency
You can’t fake real faith.
But it’s easy to fake when people are used to the front.
Don’t front.
Be a person, not a persona.
But there is a such thing as privacy.
Everybody doesn’t need to know everything.
Be you. With boundaries.
You can’t fake real faith.
But it’s easy to fake when people are used to the front.
Don’t front.
Be a person, not a persona.
But there is a such thing as privacy.
Everybody doesn’t need to know everything.
Be you. With boundaries.
4. Truth-telling
When the nation’s in a reckoning, real people want real talk about real problems.
When the skeletons are out of the closet, you need to be willing to open yours.
Care more about impact than image, and tell the truth about generational failure.
When the nation’s in a reckoning, real people want real talk about real problems.
When the skeletons are out of the closet, you need to be willing to open yours.
Care more about impact than image, and tell the truth about generational failure.
5. Tenacity
Nothing worth fighting for comes without fighting for it.
There’s a reason why the way of the cross is hard: carrying it always leads to crucifixion.
People endure through pain when they care enough.
People know you care when you refuse to quit.
Nothing worth fighting for comes without fighting for it.
There’s a reason why the way of the cross is hard: carrying it always leads to crucifixion.
People endure through pain when they care enough.
People know you care when you refuse to quit.
6. Talking
Do less of it.
Too many know how to read the Bible but not the room.
Too many are quick to open their mouth but not their minds.
Too many talk when they should take heed.
We can’t live what we don’t learn.
We can’t learn if we don’t listen.
Do less of it.
Too many know how to read the Bible but not the room.
Too many are quick to open their mouth but not their minds.
Too many talk when they should take heed.
We can’t live what we don’t learn.
We can’t learn if we don’t listen.
