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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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DEI's Divisive Reality 0:10 Well, welcome. We're talking about, chapter 23 now of the book Reverse from Culturally Woke to Biblically Awake. Reminding you again that's part 2. The 1st volume was well0:22 versed, which lays out the biblical foundations to 30 political topics, biblical answers to today's tough issues. And then the more recent book, Reverse from Culturally Woke to Biblically Awake lays out the0:34 biblical foundations, in about 60 political topics. And a reminder again, if you don't already know it, there's a children's coloring book that goes with it. For example, there's 60 pages that goes0:46 with the 60 chapters reversed. So page 40, covers essentially the essence of what chapter 40 covers. So you can use this for your children to help them understand the0:58 principles reversed. Those are all available at well versed world dot org. We're talking about DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Under the1:09 Biden administration, it was absolutely massive massive in scope. Every department, every agency, DEI was everything. Diversity,1:21 equity, and inclusion sound like 3 pretty benign words. Sound like shouldn't be a lot of problems. Right? Who wouldn't believe in diversity, equity? Well, let's talk about that 1. Inclusion?1:33 Well, who wants to be excluded? So it sounds pretty good. Until you read and these are actual headlines from major news outlets. Take a look at this. White people are not welcome in1:45 this space. Coca Cola diversity training tells employees be less white. Being white includes being oppressive, arrogant, defensive, and1:57 ignorant. Democratic Chicago mayor wants to eliminate homework and failing grades. DEI director fired because colleagues complained her diversity2:09 project was unacceptable because it didn't take steps towards decentering whiteness. Now catch this 1. Liberal college professor placed on leave2:22 suggesting it's okay to murder conservative speakers. Placed on leave. How about arresting him? New York City Teachers Union to host seminar on the harmful effects2:34 of whiteness. Those are major news outlets. Now, what is DEI like in reality? Now, diversity, equity, and inclusion, at least the 1st and the last 1, really sound do sound benign.2:46 But here's the way it kind of works out in real life. If you have the book with you, look on the bottom of page 188. Diversity. It means in effect. Here's the here's how it works out in reality. We will2:58 affirm anyone except old white Christian males, in which case we will blame you for everything that has ever gone wrong. Equity. Let's all be Marxists and take from those who produce to give it to those who do not.3:11 Inclusion. Everyone who celebrates homosexuality, transgenderism is included, but people who do not affirm these perversions, especially bible believing Christians, which is the only kind of Christian there actually3:22 is, as well as all these heteronormative affirming people. Catch that 1. Hetero, heterosexual. Heteronormative, it means heterosexual with normal, affirming it, need to be3:34 embarrassed, shamed, doxxed, ostracized, criminalized, canceled, and fired. That's what DEI plays out in reality.3:47 Now in the real world, the d and the I could could be I mean, diversity has some real values. I would affirm that. And and so does inclusion, as so long as it doesn't coerce me3:59 to put on my board, for example, a certain number of of lesbians violate Christian principles. The e is the 1 that's more of a4:11 challenge because it forces the same outcomes. We gave the illustration before, but let me repeat it. We said this on our previous video. The group of4:22 students who believe so much in DEI in college were suddenly told they were all gonna be get the same grade regardless how much they studied. None of them would study. For every employee in the company is gonna get4:34 paid exactly the same. No matter what they do, I tell you, they're all gonna end up working less. Equality of outcomes does not work. That's Marxist. That's cultural Marxism. It has never worked in a4:46 society. It won't work today. And so instead of outcomes, equal opportunity is a good and a noble thing to strive for in each society. We want to4:58 recognize the biblical underpinnings. We're all created in the image of God. So we we care deeply about each person. We want people to have equal opportunity. And the real understanding of equality, not5:10 equity, but equality, is we have equal standing before almighty God. We're equal at the foot of the cross. You can walk into a church and 1 1 person can be profoundly5:22 wealthy and, from a sophisticated family and another person could be dirt dirt poor. Before Jesus, they have exactly the same standing. We have complete equality5:34 in our standing be before God. And we pray in our society, we're able to provide as much as possible equal opportunities for everybody. Not the outcomes, but theCritiquing DEI's Core 5:46 pros the possibility of of opportunities. And we emphasize the society of mediocrity. No. Meritocracy, where where people who work hard5:58 gain from what they work. Proverbs chapter 12 verse 11 reflects this. It says, those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.Biblical Alternative: Opportunity 6:10 So what's an alternative to that e? Well, it would obviously be opportunity. So instead of diversity, equity, and inclusion, diversity rightly6:22 defined, opportunity, and then in in inclusion. The reality is that inequality is going to always exist in life. It's6:33 not the same for every person. Never has been in society and never will be. Inequality is just a fact of life. But we try to do certain things in our society6:45 to lift up those who we can to give equal opportunity if they'll take advantage of that opportunity. It means we all have to work for what we get regardless of who we are.6:57 My friend, Alveda King I've been with Alveda King a number of times. My wife and I really appreciate her and enjoy her. And, when it comes to these kind of topics, if she's in the environment where there's7:09 let's say we're we're in a crowd of 400 people, and there's a speaker on the platform. And, he talks about the different races, meaning whites and blacks. She will literally if7:21 she's in the audience, she will stand and challenge that speaker on the spot. You never get by with saying there's several races, white and black. She won't buy into that. She'll7:33 stand and say, there's 1 human race. There's 1 human race and 1 human race only. She'll rebuke anybody anywhere who tries to make the case there's different races.7:46 There are different ethnic groups, but there's 1 race. The human race for which Jesus died for our sins and gives us all equal standing7:58 before him. Well, I hope we're going from culturally woke to biblically awake.One Human Race and Prayer 8:07 Let us pray. Mighty father, we pray for unity against offense. May old roots of bitterness be plucked out.8:19 Crush the enemy under our feet, and may every nation from all tribes and peoples and languages be lifted high in praise to you. As with the Isaiah8:31 highway, may we go through go through the gates. May we prepare the way for the people. May we build up build up the highway and clear it of all8:42 stones. May we lift up a signal over the peoples. Let us be preparers for your coming kingdom. In Jesus' name, amen.8:55 We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey. Don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying, and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 DEI's Divisive Reality5:43 Critiquing DEI's Core6:10 Biblical Alternative: Opportunity8:00 One Human Race and Prayer
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