New City Cleveland, in partnership with Building Hope in the City, presents to the Christian community in Cleveland a set of four gatherings in 2024 for spiritual formation around racial reconciliation and the gospel.
We believe that a faith-rooted framework for reconciliation will better equip us to love our neighbors, act justly, do mercy, and walk humbly. In a city marked by segregation and suspicion, it can seem intimidating to cross lines of hostility. We may even find ourselves drawing those very lines with our own hands. But God calls us to a better way. A way marked by Spirit-empowered reconciliation. And it has been our Creator’s plan all along.
Over the course of four gatherings, participants will journey through the biblical narrative with a lens to see how God has always been at work to create a reconciled people for Himself.
We invite participants to learn and understand through the framework of community. From Genesis to Revelation we see the journey from an original community, to a broken community, to an idolatrous community, to a renewed community, and finally we look toward a perfected community. We encourage participants to view themselves as active participants in this journey– with both an inheritance and an entrusted mission.
Interested in hosting a workshop for your church or organization? Let us know!
Dates
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Grace Matters: Part 2
May 2nd, 2024
Bridge City Church
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Grace Matters: Part 1
September 14th, 2024
Location TBD
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Grace Matters: Part 2
October 12th, 2024
Location TBD
Want to learn more?
Let Justice Roll Down by John Perkins
White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means To Be White by Daniel Hill
Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament
Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope by Jasmine Holmes
From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race by J. Daniel Hays
Reading While Black by Esau McCauley
Liberation and Reconciliation: A Black Theology by J. Deotis Roberts
Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance by Reggie L. Williams
Books
Serial: Season Three, Cuyahoga County Justice Center
1619 Podcast
CCDA Podcast
Colored Commentary Podcast
Love Thy Neighborhood Podcast
Carved in Ebony Podcast
Southside Rabbi Podcast
Where Ya From? Podcast