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DR. JENNINGS BEANTWOORD ‘N BEKOMMERNIS OOR LEESTOF EN KOMMENTAAR WAT RASSISTIES IS

DR. JENNINGS BEANTWOORD ‘N BEKOMMERNIS OOR LEESTOF EN KOMMENTAAR WAT RASSISTIES IS

Onlangs was ek by ‘n geleentheid in die VSA waar ons bediening ons leestof weggegee het, insluitend die tydskrif Kritiese Rasteorie: Ontbloot Die Leuens Terwyl Die Evangelie Bevorder Word. Nadat hulle die inhoud gelees het, het verskeie welmenende mense die opregtheid van my Christelike waardes en dié van Come And Reason se boodskap bevraagteken. Sommige het gedink ek is rassisties in hoe ek hierdie kwessie aanspreek of ontken die impak van rassisme. Verskeie het my persoonlik daaroor uitgevra, en een persoon het ‘n passievolle maar volwasse en redelike e-pos gestuur. Omdat ander dalk ook bekommernisse of vrae het, het ek gedink dit kan nuttig wees om my antwoord na aanleiding van die e-pos te plaas.

Ek wil eers dankie sê dat jy die tyd geneem het om jou bekommernisse te deel. Ek herken jou moed en jou Christelike gees om na my uit te reik. In kommunikasie kan daar foute in oordrag en ontvangs of albei wees – wat beteken dat wat ek dink ek sê dalk nie verstaan word of uitkom soos ek bedoel het nie. Ek waardeer die geleentheid om hierdie kwessie met u te bespreek.

Eerstens het ek nog nooit geglo of bedoel om iets te sê wat daarop dui dat rassisme nie bestaan nie of dat mense nie deur rassisme seergemaak is nie. My punt was dat Kritiese Rasteorie (KRT) nie gaan oor die bevordering van ‘n oplossing vir rassisme nie; dit is om die gekrenkte gevoelens wat rassisme veroorsaak het, uit te buit om ‘n ander agenda te bevorder, spesifiek om die Christendom en sy goddelike beginsels aan te val en te vernietig onder die valse vlag van die strewe na rassegelykheid. Wat KRT so bedrieglik maak, is dat dit daarop staatmaak dat die onderwerp (rassisme) so emosioneel is dat mense sal reageer op die bewerings wat dit beweer sonder om die metodes wat dit gebruik te evalueer en sodoende mense mislei om aan ‘n anti-Christelike beweging deel te neem terwyl hulle glo dat hulle rassegelykheid bevorder. Wanneer persone soos ek probeer om die anti-Christelike agenda van alle kritiese teorieë, insluitend KRT, bloot te lê, verstaan baie mense my verkeerd en beskuldig my daarvan dat ek rasse-ongelykhede ontken of dat rassisme voorkom. Laat ek dus weer sê dat ek glo dat rassisme baie werklik is, maar ek glo dat rassisme is wat Martin Luther King Jr. beskryf het: om mense te oordeel en te diskrimineer op grond van hul velkleur of ‘n ander oppervlakkige eienskap en nie mense te waardeer op grond van die meriete van hul karakter nie.

Ek het my hele loopbaan sterk gepleit vir rassegelykheid, het daaroor geskryf, daaroor gepraat en het bevorder wat ek verstaan die enigste oplossing vir rassisme is, en dit is Christus in die harte van mense. Daar is geen menslike regeringsoplossings wat rassisme kan oplos nie. Menseregerings kan die rassiste net daarvan weerhou om mense seer te maak. Maar die ware oplossing is die liefde van Jesus Christus, wat, wanneer dit in die hart aanvaar word, die rassis in ‘n vriend verander – dit is die boodskap en missie wat ek soek.

Ek bid God se seën op jou en jou gesin.

 

 

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I Love This Ministry!!!!!!! I see first hand how this message is desperately needed, how erroneous beliefs about God and His Character negatively affect humanity at every level. I thank God for your ministry, as I was searching on my own and was discovering some of your same beliefs and was blown away when I found your ministry. I know you hear it all the time, but it is truly life changing. May God continue to reveal His Will to you and Bless you!

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I just wanted to personally thank you for your teachings and insight into scripture. I came across your website via my cousin who suggested I look into “Healing the Mind” information. My youngest daughter has been struggling over the last couple of years and it all came to a head this spring. When I started listening to the “Healing the Mind” lectures my own life began to be transformed. I began sharing with all my daughters the concepts you laid out so clearly. I ordered your book and soaked it up. I just want to say “Thank You!” My walk with the Lord has been refreshed and renewed. Your obedience to the Lord is a blessing to so many.

R. K., Anderson, SC, USA

 

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Just watched watched lesson 10 in the 1st quarter 2021 bible study classs on Isaiah. I want to thank you for your intellectual spirituality; it’s not an oxymoron! From the point of view of a teacher I also enjoy seeing how much personal pleasure you clearly take in not just tasting, but feasting on God’s word – it reminds me of Jeremiah not being able to hold it in! It makes me smile that your cup is so full and overflowing that you make it to Tuesday’s lesson (on a good day). It just goes to show the richness of God’s Word.

God bless the Come and Reason Team from our church here in Great Britain.

Andrew H., Great Britain

 

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I just want to say thank you so much for your conversations via YouTube. I regularly tune in to your lectures, “Let’s Talk” sessions, and many others. Through these I’ve found greater depth and meaning to God’s word. Thanks for all that you do and please continue. I’m currently working in the middle of Silicon Valley at Stanford University. I feel like God really has me in the right place right now and I’m sensing that your teachings might be part of it.

B. F., Silicon Valley, CA, USA

 

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I have been really blessed reading your response to the various questions on your site.

K.C., OH, USA

 

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I truly believe that to know who God really is the first step to understand ourselves in a balanced and kind way, so the healing can take place. Your approach really makes sense – Thank you for your ministry!

A.M., Pittsburg, PA, USA

Testimony 59

I’m a native Ghanan, but am currently in France for my master’s degree. Prior to this, during my final years at undergraduate studies in Ghana, I was introduced to your ministry and I’ve been immensely blessed by what you share, especially about the Design and Imposed Laws. God richly bless you for that.

One of the first things I did when I arrived in France was to buy all four of your books. They not only helped me, but those I shared them with. I shared the message with an atheist student and I marveled at how God worked mightily in his life. Today this person shares the Love of God with others and debunks theories of who God is not. I want to share what you present in your “Heavenly Sanctuary and Investigative Judgment” pamphlet, because the message brought rest to my soul and I live today as a healthy person.

God bless you so much and your ministry.

Michael A., Ghana

 

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The Healing the Mind DVD set tarted me on a journey that has changed my relationship with our loving God more significantly than any other study, and brought me to your book and Bible study podcasts, which I now listen to daily, thanks to the availability of archived content on your site and on iTunes.

Anonymous

 

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I have been truly blessed by your blogs and other resources. They have helped me to see things in a much brighter light and to reason things out better. Thank you so much for your ministry. Whenever I have the opportunity I pass along your material to my friends.

R. Noseworthy, Newfoundland, Canada

Testimony 53

I was so blessed by a friend who gave me your book, “The God Shaped Brain,” while I was sitting in church asking God to please help me learn more about Him and help me not to be so confused and scared. That was about 2 years ago. Your books have helped me to love God even more. I’m not confused or scared anymore! I have listened to all of your bible study classes and feel like I know the wonderful people that attend every week. Thank you for all that you’re doing in spreading the true message about God and His law of love. God bless you and your whole class.

Elssy P., Modesto, CA, USA

 

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We listen to your bible studies lessons in our class in Montana. You actually were the main reason I decided to get a laptop, so I can go to your site and listen, read, learn, and print the class notes. I am so grateful to learn the correct view of God and his character. Now, to just have others have an interest in knowing, so I can share it with them. Good thoughts your way.

R. N., MT, USA

 

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I would love to have a copy of “Healing the Mind” DVDs to have in my therapy office. I enjoy having clients check out materials to enhance their therapy experience. I have sat under Dr. Jennings’ teaching at an American Association of Christian Counselors convention and respect his work greatly.

K.B., LA, USA

 

Testimony 30

God lead me to your book “The God-Shaped Brain” while I was searching for another book about the brain and then to your interview about your book on HeartWise Ministries [where] I found out about [Come And Reason Ministries]. I’m now devouring the webcasts of your Bible studies. I have been so greatly blessed and I thank God so much for your courage to speak the Truth in love no matter what. Listening to you contrast the two opposing systems (laws) and digging deep to unearth the hidden treasures in the Bible makes me so incredibly happy and I feel very blessed to be part of your Bible Study Group although I live far away. I am just so excited that there is a group of people that is spreading the Truth about the character of God and it saddens me how few realize what our Father in Heaven is really like.

Kessy B., Australia

 

Testimony 16

Your seminars are still inspiring and changing our lives and we continue to share the principles we have learned from you. Your ministry has changed our lives!

E.W.