Racism is caused by systemic sin—the systemic sin nature that is in all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are like a field of dry grass that can be set ablaze under the right circumstances with the right spark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some people hold up a metal lightening rod in a thunderstorm, inviting their dry grass to be ignited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some people delight in throwing a lighted match on others’ dry grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sinful, evil nature inside all of us waits for the trigger of temptation to give us the excuse to act on what we wanted to do all along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“As a person thinks in his heart, so is he.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” and so, racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Systemic racism is solved only by addressing systemic sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Systemic sin is addressed only by turning to Jesus for healing of the heart, and then healing of our other ills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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