City Church Tulsa

UNITY FAITH DAY Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial 5.30.21 Destroyed: • 12 churches •5 hotels •31 restaurants • 4 drug stores •8 doctor’s offices • 24 grocery stores •1 public library • Hundreds-Thousands of homes burned • As many as 300 people dead PATHWAY FOR RACIAL JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION: 1) GOSPEL – Developing a wholistic gospel that is not limited to personal justification but moves into repentance, wholeness, love for our brothers and sisters, and freedom for the oppressed and marginalized. “Race is a gospel issue.” “Aren’t we past this issue?” “What do you mean, gospel issue? Isn’t this a social issue?” “What can the church even do about it?” “Talking about it seems to divide the church so maybe we should just focus on other things.” “Why can’t we just leave politics out of the church?” D. A. Carson Certainly the majority of Christians in America today would happily state that good race relations are a gospel issue. They might point out that God’s saving purpose is to draw to himself, through the c