Dear Prayer Team Member,
"This kind of thing (assigning discriminatory labels) isn't new. People have labeled, disrespected and ostracized others since the beginning of time. In the Bible we read of the shunning of lepers, as though their disease rendered them less than suffering human beings with human needs. Still, today, we speak of “social lepers.” Observant Jews would give a wide birth to the heretical Samaritans. When Paul counseled Titus regarding his ministry in Crete (Titus 1:12), he quoted the Cretan writer Epimenides, who wrote, “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.” Jesus was criticized for his interactions with “Tax collectors and sinners.” Women were considered to be generally “less than” men. In world history, the most egregious examples of labeling people for wicked ends were the Nazi campaign against the Jews, and the African slave trade, both of which promoted the lie that Jews and slaves were sub-human."
Excerpt from the Sep-Dec Call to prayer
by Executive Director, Deborah Hollifield:
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