tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433711.post113712856296106983..comments2023-10-21T09:16:40.248-04:00Comments on Joy in the Margins: All I Needed to Know About My City I Learned in the Church Basketball LeagueMarshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019515751585722113noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433711.post-1137441682069648382006-01-16T15:01:00.000-05:002006-01-16T15:01:00.000-05:00Miles - I could not agree with you more and don't ...Miles - I could not agree with you more and don't think you really devil's advocated, but rather expanded and clarified. Our/my "goal" is certainyly not breaking church attendance barriers, but instead to live out of the reconciled reality accomplished by Christ. The reason I would START with the Church is that we are the only ones who have a real shot at reconciliation. We are the only ones who have Christ, the Reconciler, living in us.<BR/><BR/>In my yet to be published book, Joy in the Margins, I write about the Three R's (thank you John Perkins):reconciliation, relocation, and redistribution. I think that all three need to happen for transformation to take place, and the Church should lead the way - Christians should be moving to live near people of other races, Christians should be engaging in deep relationships across cultures in their private and vocational lives, and Christians should be advocating that resources and wealth be better shared among all people. If I had more time, I would share how I think each R is necessary to complete the whole picture and lends itself to the other two. <BR/>Incidentally, an excellent book on this issues is Divides By Faith by Emerson and Smith, which is a sociological study of the Church's inablity to overcome the black-white divide in America.Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00019515751585722113noreply@blogger.com