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    When Heaven and Earth Collide: Racism, Southern Evangelicals, and the Better Way of Jesus
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    When Heaven and Earth Collide: Racism, Southern Evangelicals, and the Better Way of Jesus

    By Alan Cross

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    When Heaven and Earth Collide is an investigation into what went wrong in the American South in regard to race and religion—and how things can be and are being made right. Why, in a land filled with Christian churches, was there such racial oppression and division? Why didn’t white evangelicals do more to bring racial reconciliation to the South during the 19th and 20th centuries? These questions are asked and answered through an exploration of history, politics, economics, philosophy, and social and theological studies that uncovers the hidden impetus behind racism and demonstrates how we can still make many of the same errors today—just perhaps in different ways. The investigation finally leads us in hopeful directions involving how to live out the better way of Jesus with an eye on heaven in a world still burdened and broken under the sins of the past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewSouth Classics
    Release dateNov 1, 2014
    ISBN9781603063562
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    When Heaven and Earth Collide: Racism, Southern Evangelicals, and the Better Way of Jesus
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    Alan Cross

    ALAN CROSS is pastor of Gateway Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where he has served on staff since 2000. A Southern native, he was born in New Orleans and grew up in Picayune, Mississippi. He earned an education degree at Mississippi State University and a master’s of divinity from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, California, where he focused on intercultural studies and urban ministry.

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      “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.--Matthew 23:29-31, ESVI picked up this book to find out: "What the hell went wrong with them?" Pastor Cross looks at the history of racism in the American south and tries to answer that question. The "them" in this case is the protestant churches of the old South. How could a people professing that Jesus died for all--that he was gathering all people to himself--perpetuate and even promote a system of inequality, oppression, exploitation and violence? The short answer was that "they" were idolaters. "They" corrupted the church of Jesus Christ with the values of Greek philosophy, personal well-being, and plain ol' greed.Good to know. That explained to me the "them" of the Old South and the "them" who seem to be carrying on that racist, or at least exploitative, legacy today. But then Pastor Cross goes on to ask if "we" are any better. The American Church is no stranger, alas, to self interest, the preservation of the status quo, or the desire to bless values that do not flow out of scripture. Any time we indulge those desires, we take a step off of the road Jesus trod. The road to Heaven.In the end, Pastor Cross doesn't give a solution to finally putting racism behind us. We live in a broken world beyond our ability as mere human beings to repair. But by following Christ, we can be that place where Heaven and Earth collide and try to push back against the evils of this world.--J.