The Dream King Will Ford and Matt Lockett
10 Favorite Lines:
…in Christ, my stories are your stories, and your stories are mine.
America has been down a similar road before with efforts and language designed to dehumanize, marginalize, and disenfranchise a people group—namely Africans and their descendants in America. If we look back in history, we can trace the roots of the ideology of abortion.
Will ending abortion fix all of our social ills? No, but can we honestly solve any problem in our communities while abortion still exists? When we dehumanize unborn people we cannot see and consider their lives optional, inevitably, it is easier to devalue some of the people we can see until their lives become marginal.
Transformed hearts produce transformed laws…
These things are not to be ignored, as some would have it when they flippantly say, “It’s time just to move on.” Nor are they things to be used to perpetually shame others into an unending pattern of penance, as some would equally have it.
King once said, “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.” If the previous generation only succeeded in regulating behavior, it is up to this generation to complete the work—the greater work—of changing the heart.
[Reverend Francis] Asbury understood that… a failure to rightly address the issue of slavery would hinder the advance of the Gospel.
…only a united church can heal a divided nation.
The Bible teaches that where there is oppression, the unjust treatment of people groups, or the senseless loss of human life, there is a cry that God hears, and it has His undivided attention. Can we hear that same cry?
Hebrews 12:24 says that the blood of Jesus speaks a better word than the blood of those who have been mistreated and murdered.
