Megachurch Pastor Says White Christians Must Recognize ‘Privilege,’ Share Burdens Believers of Color Face

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(Photo: The Christian Post/Sonny Hong)J.D. Greear, lead pastor at the Summit Church of Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, speaks at the Pastors’ Conference 2014 ahead of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting on Monday, June 9, 2014, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Megachurch pastor J.D. Greear of the Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, said that white Christians must offer to share the burden that believers of color face in society, in order to progress toward racial reconciliation.

“We need to make every effort to bear the burdens that many of our brothers and sisters of color are carrying. These are burdens that most of us have never had to experience,” he argued in a New Year’s Day blog post.

“And often, sadly, our brothers and sisters of color are carrying the weight of these heavy burdens by themselves. Racial reconciliation involves quite a bit more than simply sharing burdens, but it never involves less than this.” 

Greear cited the Apostle Paul in Galatians 6:2 who called on Christians to “carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”

“For Paul, this is simply an obvious application of the gospel. If you understand the gospel, you will enter into the burdens of others, even burdens brought on by their own sinfulness,”…

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