Blessed Are The Uncomfortable (Week 2)

Welcome to Arapaho United Methodist Church, a Christ-centered community called to the work of social justice in Richardson, Texas. We are happy you joined us for online worship.

It is uncomfortable to own who we are as colonialists.  Our myths are helpful.  Jesus used parables as a teaching tool.  Today, we look to the Prophet Amos to see how myths can also be weaponized.

It is not the great and powerful who make history. It's just the great and powerful who write history books and rewrite, revise, sanitize, add, subtract and even fabricate events to paint us in the best possible light.  

Knowledge of one's history is crucial to anyone who wishes to make positive social change.  When we replace history with myths, denial replaces reality.  As God helps us deconstruct myth from history, leads us to hold each with equanimity as intended, and guides us in rebuilding a better future – despite our past.  Therein lies hope.