Baptist Church Brings in Sociologist

Jerome · Feb 16, 2018

SBC Presidential candidate J.D. Greear has chosen a racial reconciliation platform for this year's campaign. Here's what they've done at his 'Summit Church':

jdgreear.com/blog/best-dr-george-yancey/

Last week our staff and our church had the privilege of hearing from sociologist and professor George Yancey....Here are some of the best moments from his various talks last week:
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“This is going to be risky. Can you take the risk to listen deeply to those you disagree with? Our society doesn’t seem to have this ability. Those of us in the church need to model it.”
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“Until you have buy-in from every racial group, no solution you put forward is going to work. It will always be perceived as an ‘outsider’ answer, and someone will inevitably sabotage it.”
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“Reading books about race is great. But if we’re going to move in this, it has to be mostly flesh to flesh. This has to start in relationships.”
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“I know this can get tiring, and there are many people who experience fatigue. But we can never give up. I believe God wants racial reconciliation for us."
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georgeyancey.com/bio

"ABOUT ME
After graduating West Texas State University with a B. S. in Economics, I attended the University of Texas at Austin and received my doctorate in Sociology in 1995. I first began to study interracial romance but then was fortunate enough to work with Michael Emerson on a half-million dollar grant to study multiracial churches....In 1999 I began teaching at the University of North Texas, and today I am working to establish a program for Christian Studies at that institution. It will be the first center that concentrates on conducting critical, but nonhostile, research that helps Christians to better serve their communities and the larger society."

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