https://intentionaltoday.com/shiny-happy-people-documentary-african-american-perspective/ Helping Wives Address Marriage Problems Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://intentionaltoday.com/shiny-happy-people-documentary-african-american-perspective/#comment-45033 https://intentionaltoday.com/?p=84006#comment-45033 Thank you so much for sharing your perspective… I have been doing so much examination into my faith over the last decade, as a lot of the Christianity I was raised in was absolutely influenced by Gothard. Even from a young age, I felt it didn’t add up, and feel that all the more as I grow and heal mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. In my reexamination of my own personal faith in Christ, in recent years I have been disturbed to realize just how much subtle (and not so subtle) racism and whiteness was passed off as “God’s perspective” and even as virtues of Christianity. I myself have tried to distance myself from thoughts and “theologies” that place one “type” of people over another, but reading your article, I have felt so much conviction for how deep the thought process still runs in me, or how much I have never seen before. I am so thankful for your eye-opening perspective on this, and I am so humbled and saddened to see just how far we can go from Christ simply by accepting generational teachings as part of the Gospel itself, instead of seeking things out to weigh them with a just balance. Thank you, again, for this. Please know that you are helping people to see and love truly as Christ intended.

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