{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"SG² Steve Gladen on Small Groups","title":"Your Small Group’s Role Against Racism","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2509,"description":" A Faith That Plants Seeds Of Peace\" with Pastor Rick Warren Undivided   Racism: How Should Christians Respond? Dr. Tony Evans Speaks From His Heart About Social Injustice ONENESS EMBRACED WITH TONY EVANS 4 One-Another’s to Promote Unity in Your Groups Ministry A Few Truths We Can Affirm as the Body of Christ  by Scott Sager In these difficult days, we at Lipscomb are praying for all our churches, that we might be those Ezekiel spoke of who repair the breach and stand in the gap. We realize it is difficult to know what to do, what to say, and how to say it. This can often paralyze us into saying and doing nothing. However, we need to know that saying nothing in a time like this can appear to others as though our silence is a symptom of unconcern. So with great humility and a belief that prayer and the Spirit will give each congregation the right way to \"speak the truth in love\" we offer these thoughts in the hope they can do some good: Think Christian-ly. It is easy to see a crisis through the lens given you by the media or some other outside organization. But we are to have \"the mind of Christ\" (I Cor. 2: 16). This means we \"take every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ\" (2 Cor. 10: 5) so that we \"do not conform to the pattern of this world, but are transformed\" through minds renewed by the Spirit (Rom. 12: 2). Resolve to think through this situation as Jesus would if physically present. Affirm the Divine Image in Every Person.The first chapter of Genesis affirms that each of us is created in the very image of God. We are each divine image-bearers. Jesus once told us, \"Render unto Caesar the things that are in Caesar's image\" but we are to render unto God the things made in God's image. Every person is a divine image of God regardless of age, color, or capacity. We each belong to God. Affirm that Breath Comes from God and Returns to God.Again it is God who “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being\" (Gen....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/uAtv0zHBzgbCLLeewi1iCzhs7OXKuDoPGaihQiM636g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI3MTA3LzE2NTE4/NTkyNDEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}