August 22nd Meeting
- Questions
- Have you ever been in a multicultural relationship?
- Are interracial relationships different than any other normal relationship?
- Why do some fail: The racial and cultural differences in your interracial marriage won’t necessarily cause your relationship to fail. What can cause an interracial marriage to fall apart is the inability of a couple to handle their differences and a failure to talk about the stresses one or both of them are experiencing…
- Have you heard them say.. It’s not real, it’s just trendy?
What does the Bible say about Interracial Marriage?
- Mixed marriages in the Bible?
- Moses & his Cushite wife.
- Verses:
- Deuteronomy 7:2-5 and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods.
- Joshua 23:11-13 “So be very diligent to love the Lord your God, because if you ever turn back and cling to those who remain of these nations by intermarrying with them and associating one with another, know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations ahead of you. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap for you, a whip to your backs, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.”
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
- 2 Corinthians 6:15-16 Can Christ agree with the devil? Can a believer share life with an unbeliever? Can God’s temple contain false gods? Clearly, we are the temple of the living God. As God said, “I will live and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
- John 7:24 “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
- Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
- Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Acts 17:26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
How did we get here?
- US & Tennessee History
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- 1967 (Linda’s research notes)
- Laws / Felony
- Historical IR relationships
Last Meetings quiz.
- On a scale of 1-10 how educated are you about racial justice issues.
- When you think of racial justice what image comes to mind
- Is there a victim?
Scripture & Prayer?
- Psalm 139:23-24 New International Version
- 23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
- 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
- Prayer:
- We pray for healing over anyone who is physically or mentally suffering from the effects of racism.
- Pray for the unity of our relationships
- Prayer for the understanding of cultural differences.
- Prayer for patience when dealing with in-laws.