Interview with John Piper on Racial Reconciliation in the Church
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So, what should racial reconciliation be based on?
Truth. Biblical truth, with a strong God-centered articulation of the gospel and the sovereignty of God.
There is a beautiful movement today of the "soul-dynamic" in the black church (see Carl Ellis’ book Free At Last?). This dynamic is what characterized the black church over the years when they knew God and saw God, and the God that they knew and saw (not systematically, but experientially and with some articulation of biblical truth) was sovereign, solid, and real. He sustained the black church through slavery and injustice and through crisis after crisis. We now have songs and music that were born out of that suffering, and that vision of God is amazingly coherent with the reformed vision of God as expressed by John Calvin, Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, and John Owen.
So today there are many young, black, thoughtful men and women who are seeing that the reformed tradition is coherent with—not contrary to—what has been deeply held and believed and lived out of in the black tradition.
The common ground that is needed for racial reconciliation is the vision of the sovereign God of the Bible coming into coherence with the long-experienced sovereign God of the black church.
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