If You Want Something To Be Better
POST BY MATT MCCOY
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Artwork by multimedia artist, Tracy Loreque-Skinner
“If you give a person a fish, you feed them for a meal. If you teach a person how to fish, you feed them for life.”
I was raised hearing this saying, and I would imagine you were, too. But what if it’s false?
We are starting a small group next week where we take time to reflect on our life’s journey with others, and have the opportunity to take steps to paying attention and living differently with those whose life experiences are different than our own. We started this group with a webinar and podcast with the co-author of Healing Our Broken Humanity, Graham Hill. You can listen / watch those here.
Six days from now, the online community of small groups known as Healing Our Broken Humanity will meet to discuss an hour long video featuring John Perkins. John is going to show us what’s wrong with the saying, ““If you give a person a fish, you feed them for a meal. If you teach a person how to fish, you feed them for life.”
If you want to see the short preview before deciding if you want to watch the whole hour long video, click here.
If you’re ready to jump in and watch the whole hour long video, click here.
But, hey, let’s be honest, everyone during this season of racial upheaval has already shared their favorite videos, podcasts, and articles. There’s nothing new with this blog so far, right?
Well, if you want to join a discussion around this video that will give you the chance to cultivate some simple, practical steps you can take with other people to learn how you can help make your neighborhood a better place, I hope you join us in six days. Click here to view the calendar event.
Look, if there’s something that we both know, it’s this: There are no easy solutions here. There is no quick fix. There is no silver bullet. We’re not offering to make the problem go away.
We are offering a space to become friends with people who are different than you (uncommon friendship), and offering a community where we can discover how to walk in the direction Jesus is walking in (common discipleship).
Yeah, I’m nervous about this, too. We’re going to gather together a group of people who believe different things about a very divisive topic, listen to a video from an African-American Evangelical from Mississippi, and talk about actual homework that we’ll do together over the next month. This feels, well, real.