INSIDE: Talking about race with grace is a skill. How can we develop it? How do we start conversations about race with our kids? Why talk about race? Listen in.

Starting and holding a conversation about race with your people can feel intimidating.

My hope is for us, as Christ’s followers, to begin talking about race with the people most important to us because God’s heart is for people of every nation,  tribe, and tongue to know and worship Him. If this is what heaven will look like, why can’t we bring heaven to earth now? Why can’t the Church be the frontrunner in racial reconciliation and hope? 

Friend, I posit to you today that it is no longer an option to do nothing: To avoid conversations, to not bring truth into the light, to bury our heads in the sand about how much racism has hurt our country.

God’s gospel calls us higher. God’s gospel calls us to love people – those who look similar to us and those who do not. To go and make disciples – and the going could be as close as your next-door neighbor or as far away as whatever country is opposite of your latitude and longitude. To be in community with fellow image-bearers.

Will you lean in and listen to God’s heart for you as you live as a brave grace-girl? 

In today’s episode, you’ll learn about talking about race with grace. Michelle Ami Reyes breaks down:

  • How to cultivate a biblical understanding of the theology of race
  • The difference between race, culture, and ethnicity,
  • And how to have conversations about race with your kids and teens

Quotes about talking about race with grace

  • “As Christians, why do we care about diversity? We care about diversity because God cares about diversity.” – Michelle Ami Reyes
  • “We cannot, as Christians, argue that our spiritual identity, our oneness in Christ in a spiritual sense, is the only thing that matters. If that were true, then we wouldn’t retain our cultural identities and native tongues in the new Jerusalem.” – Michelle Ami Reyes
  • “How do we affect racial change? It’s in the one-on-one conversations.” – Michelle Ami Reyes
  • “Make it your goal to not be easily offended.” – Michelle Ami Reyes
  • “Make your words full of grace and seasoned with salt and watch the Holy Spirit move.” – Michelle Ami Reyes

Quotes about the gospel and racial reconciliation

  • “Diversity is God’s original heart for all people. The goal of diversity is worship.” – Michelle Ami Reyes
  • “Ethnicity refers to our roots. Culture is the summation of stories that have been born of your ethnic roots. Race categorizes people based on what you see to create hierarchies of value.” – Michelle Ami Reyes
  • “Jesus came to save people holistically.” – Michelle Ami Reyes
  • “Jesus redemptively addresses every human need.” – Michelle Ami Reyes
  • “Jesus cared about reintegrating people into a restored community.” – Michelle Ami Reyes
  • “The gospel in motion means asking questions like, ‘How can we get involved? How could I raise my voice? How could I open my home and host an immigrant family that’s looking for shelter?” – Michelle Ami Reyes

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