Ligon Duncan: "My Very Best Black Friends Have Trouble Trusting Me, For Really Good Reasons"

Dr. J. Ligon Dunan III, Chancellor and CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary, suggests black Christians are exercising reasonable discernment, not prejudice, if they project the horrors of Jim Crow mistreatment onto him personally because of his skin color, during an appearance on The Gospel Coalition's "As In Heaven" podcast.Show more

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"Can you imagine the gospel impact if Bible-believing Protestants (Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians) had said of their Bible-believing Christian brothers and sisters in Baptist churches and elsewhere: ‘you’re not gonna kill our brothers and sisters in Christ. You’re not gonna defraud our brothers and sisters in Christ. You’re not going to wrongfully imprison our brothers and sisters in Christ. You’re not going to mistreat our brothers and sisters.’ Can you imagine the gospel impact of that? And it's gonna take us 100 years to overcome the trust issues that have come out of that. I tell people: my very best black friends have trouble trusting me, for really good reasons. Because people like me have been doing awful things to them and to their families for four centuries. It's gonna take a while before the trust issues that exist between otherwise good friends in Christ are gonna be addressed. We've got generational issues here."

Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QESF9Ijsha8

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