Tune in to DG Live on November 3, 2011 at 7:30pm EST (6:30pm CT, and 4:30pm Pacific) as John Piper’s local address to pastors will be broadcast worldwide in an effort to promote racial reconciliation.
The address relates to his new release, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian, where Piper confesses his own racisim as a youth in Greenville, SC and his need for the gospel.
His message is nothing short of a plea for racial harmony and a call to action for the church. “Conservative evangelicals seem to have become indifferent to the sin of racism,” explains Tim Keller. Whether it’s weariness, our stubborn hearts, or outright denial behind this indifference—racism is still a relevant issue that both Keller and Piper assert deeply offends God.
Though many strategies have been put forward to combat racism—educational, governmental, social—they have all been ineffective in eradicating racism. These strategies fail to recognize that at the root of racism, human sin and a supernatural enemy are at work and they won’t be conquered with good intentions or human effort.
“There is little doubt that where maddening hopeless, sinful, self-destructive behaviors and structures hold sway over large groups of people—white or black, left or right—the Devil is deeply at work,” Piper explains. “What hope does a message of personal responsibility or structural intervention have against this supernatural power? None.”
But the good news is that racial justice and reconciliation are possible. The good news of the gospel is that all bloodlines come together in the bloodline of Christ.
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