'CONFLICT AND DISCIPLINE OF GRACEFUL LIVING' - A sermon by Bishop Carlton D. Pearson

this great ace look me haha this morning yes I did started Oh movie to the all your enemy Oh of your day e and a real pity the victory me y'all are all cool I didn't know David wasn't going to be here this morning but you make us not miss him so thank you and the singers they get some of them get a sunday off they have to take the Sun be off that I'm here but that I'll get them about that later I mean the backup singers but we're we're to tell the person next year I'm so glad to be sitting next to you high five two or three folks right quick and say I'm glad you're sitting next to me this amazing experience we call life and I call it you've heard me say many times they sexually transmitted disease or disease attention and and that's incurable and that it's criminal because we all go through the transition we call death or what we think is an end in this dimension but it's not untreatable where this incurable disease is not untreatable and we are all in treatment and that's one of the reasons we come each week this is part of our weekly treatment sitting in here for an hour or an hour and a half or do and hanging out together in feeling the social energy that is in synergy that is around us and within us and flowing through us when we're together we are social being spiritual being sensual and sexual beings and all three of those all four of those esas cooperate in the human experience we are naturally drawn to each other socially and chemically we don't always realize why we're drawn to certain people sometimes the chemistry is a little bit different with another human being doesn't matter about of their particular race or gender we just are drawn to people and like we went my daughter and I went out to the shell animal shelter yesterday measure and I and there are certain dogs we were drawn to certain dogs we wasn't drawn to and we were looking for something small but there were larger dogs that we could we could almost feel that we could get along quite well with the match loves animals and she has been working at a veterinarian's office for several months and almost all last year so she wants a dog so I took her out to to look at one in and I was fitting the energy in the room of all the people they sold about a hundred something for only ten dollars on a special yesterday normally it's 75 for dog and 25 for a cat they're all spaded and they've got all their shots and all that stuff I'd never been there before and of course you could smell that dogs live there before you even get in there and there are people there's a lot of there's a lot of energy in that room and a lot of odors in that room and a lot of feelings in that room but it was like and most of us who have dogs or have ever had dogs you know that a dog seems to have more unconditional love than in the human you've ever been around right dogs is a bama no woman's best friend whose best friend are you and and why dog is God spelled backwards somebody said that is I don't know if that's on purpose and that's only in this language but whose best friend are you and how we're feeling a lot of unfriendliness in the culture in the country there's a lot of conflict we all say we love this country we all have opinions this is this is a an election year so as I said last time during an election year you are forced to have even if you don't express your opinion and so this may be one of the most idolatrous times in the year because opinion is there such thing as idolatry is the idol your opinion may be the most pronounced idol or think that you worship and work through and work with and defend or fight for create for we all carry these opinions which comes from the Greek word optimist or opts for the word for I which means your view everybody has a view whether you verbalize it or not everybody has an opinion everybody has a perception about the election about the country about the pros and cons of a police officer and and in the the Paullus or the citizens policies they like when we say metropolis we're talking about a large city with citizens in them and citizens come from the Latin word civis where we get the english word civil or civility or civilization we're all going through policies and police and polity and politics more ticks and pots and well it varies we're all sorted through now today really tomorrow fishley starts the Democratic convention and we went through the Republican convention we heard all these opinions and they were similar and we're going to hear another group of opinions this week and we'll all have them we already have them many millions of people will go or watch the conventions and their opinions will not change for any reason they may be affected by a little bit button that they won't change opinions are something that we possess but also opinions possess us talk to me somebody the theme for the month is conflict and conflict as income is an incompatibility incompatibility between two or more opinions two or more idols almost two more or more gods that are fighting it's a sort of like a cosmic conflict the cosmos of your thinking is in conflict or contrast or something else it's it's two more opinions or principles or interests psychology says that it's a condition in which a person experiences a clash of opposing wishes or needs no one in here I can say they haven't experienced that even this morning does the opinion of whether I'll go the extra 20 minutes oh I heard your spirits loud and clear no some I have opinions I have nothing else to do it's hot outdoors let's hang out here let's let's serve ice tea in a little bit in snow cones or something and hang out all afternoon because some of you have nothing to do with your lives anyway Sophie someday is to do nothing with my life day we hang out we chill we'll get some lunch we'll take it easy it's too hot to do much so opinions are often influenced by environment or by circumstances or situations in our lives as a variable conflict means to be incompatible or at variance sounds like married for some people sounds like the job that you live that you work sounds like family reunions the factor quality of being different or being divergent or being inconsistent all of us feel that all of us are that life is a symphony of opportunities for expansion punctuated by distractions or attractions and that tension demands attention which creates in tension there's tension in all of our lives there's tension in this country there's tension in this county there's tension in our culture the tension does draw attention and then the next step we do is find an intention that responds to the tensity or the dis-ease of you being human the disease that we call life and supposedly the greatest country on the planet the whole world knows that there's great tension and conflict in America not just racially but politically ethnically educationally socially in every way well but it's not unlike other countries even though we are not a religious we're not a country controlled by religion we are our tongue country influenced by religion and religion whether it's Catholicism or Protestantism Judaism Gentiles Pentecostal fundamentalist a meta casa y una Casa whatever it is we all have opinions turn to somebody and say what's your view now the view is different depending on which side of the building you are depends on which direction you're faced sometimes depending on what floor you're on the higher floors have sometimes more of a panoramic vision or you can see farther from the height so you can't judge the person who doesn't have the same view as you because they literally can't see what you see even though sometimes they're laying beside you in bed or sitting beside you it or calls from you in the dinner table actually you looking at that person and the other person is looking at you you're actually looking at opposing views though you're not necessarily may not necessarily have opposing opinions about the view if I said get up and look out look out in the courtyard all y'all will go over on that way you see the fountains there's a little bit those of you would look out that one did you see the trees and both of you both sides would say it's beautiful out there today if you didn't know the temperature and hadn't been out you wouldn't know that because that can be a fall day except the tree's leaves might be a little different but it could be as bright and it's beautiful but a lot cooler and we can't gnarly wait till it gets it life is a symphony of opportunities for expansion punctuated with distractions tension demands that it is now experience is not only what happens to us as a personal resignation but it's what we do with what happens to us how you respond to the situation with which you are confronted or that you are in the front of or that you're facing with I've been doing a lot of thinking and deep probing and experiencing my country and my consciousness at different levels based on my views of things it's hard to keep a positive view all the time but I'm better at it I resist negativity not because there aren't such things as negative realities but you must use the energy of negative negativity to turn it in something positive that's how we've lasted this long yes well with what you've already been through you know your champion turn to somebody and say you have no idea who you're sitting next to tell them say you don't know the iron Constitution inside of me I love that song or that scripture that says if it had not been as the roll song if it had not been for the Lord on my son tell me where would I be if it had not been for the where would I be if it had have been for a different kind of destiny of a different kind of reality it hadn't been for some larger than extent life influence on me I do not know where I would be today I could be in the hospital today or pennant penitentiary or insane asylum or I could be a church it if it had not been for the look of my side there's no telling where if you look at your life and kind of reflect back what brought you to where you are how did you arrive here what journeys and paths did you take if you live way out south where I do you drive you you we draw sometimes I Drive down Yale and turn on 31st Peoria I dropped Majesty off at nine then I went back home and I drove down PR because it wasn't as crowded as it is right now and not as crowded as it is when we get through some of you drove from the north side something you had to go around 31st and you live west of 31st between the river in here and some of you don't know how you got here you just glad somebody brought you you paid no attention you don't always pay attention to things the same you don't see things the same way when you're driving as you do when you're not driving whoever's the driver in your house the drivers see something different than the passengers or you notice something ignorance doesn't mean always me not to know it means not to notice or to take or make note of when we it's where they're actually the word is actually ignore rents you're such an ignorant thing we used to say that meant you're ignoring what's very obvious I'm here and you're not paying it you're not making note of my reality you're not making note of the fact that I'm here that I'm living and moving you're not showing any care that the whole thing about black lives matter simply means all lives matter including black lives if you say blue lives matter doesn't mean that red lives don't when you say blue lives matter you're saying blue lives matter as a part of all the lives that matter that just because we're in uniform that doesn't mean we are threat black lives matters says that just because I'm of a darker hue I'm not excluded out of the large care for all people you could say white lives matter same distance a same difference I if I'm white and I do have Caucasian blood in me and Native American blood of me and Indian or I mean a African blood in me is mostly obviously African so I'm rooting for the Africans you know I was talking to a lawyer he's from Southern California as i am and when I was growing up in the 60s we had Chicanos which were mexican-americans and we had the tiguan arrows who lived just a little bit south of where I was raised five miles south of the top five miles south of the Tijuana borrow the Mexican borders where I live so the teal green arrow starts at the Chicanos thought they were better than them so they have we have bloody bloody fight I wasn't involved in I was busy praying but they they had chains and knives and rocks and but they would come and stand outside my junior high school there were some serious battles and they were all Mexicans but one were mexican-americans and other ones were American Mexicans close I'm an American African because i was born in America there are some people if you were born in African you're an african-american you could be a European American or you could be an American European depends on where you're born Obama is an American African even though Trump think he's an african-american most warm if you want i yes your bidding life doesn't just happen to us life happens through us and life happens as us say it life doesn't just happen to me say it life happens through me and life happens as me and you know what you are the cool creator of your reality there's creation recreation or recreation and procreation then there's co-creation we are creating together here at all souls the key word is all all souls that doesn't just mean unitarian souls or mexican souls or or black souls or rich souls or white soles all souls united universally universe one verse version or versification of the whole is the way i like to define it all souls unitarian universalist that's not just the name of a denomination they have my name is Bishop do I look like a bishop what is a bishop look like mom dress I got her I could have come in rows I got vestments good lord you just thought I was a clown walking I could I could come here when I got miters and at certain times I am Bishop krona I prefer to be called Carlton but I'm going to be a bishop because in 1996 I was consecrated in front of 10,000 people with a whole College of Bishops most of my seniors older men and women they came together laid hands on the unknown enemy and I had six hundred churches over which i presided so the name is their most of my members call me for from Heidi call me pastor all over the city Bishop is a title but that's not who I am that's some of what I do Carlson is my name not always my nature Reverend apostle profit dr. whatever somebody calls you black as my color it's not really my color it's the culture black is not a color it's an experience talk to me somebody we all sort through what all that stuff means we say black and white white folks ain't white de pink and some of them have read around the neck we all covered black folks a black wii navy blue or tan there's all kinds of shades and levels of complexion and complexities they vary as we live now many people including all ethnicities across the spectrum are shocked and appalled at the tragic and rapid repetitive shooting and killing of unarmed non-violent african-americans by white law enforcement officers with with what appears to most as random reactionary racists and or paranoid knee-jerk trigger-happy trigger hyper tendencies there's equal frustration with recent random and understandably reactionary shootings and killings of law enforcement officers by angry African American armed forces vet veterans Thomas Jefferson wrote when injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty when injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty the stop and frisk laws need to be changed sensitivity training must increase and law enforcement officers must not be licensed to break the laws while supposedly enforcing them I watched several videos this week of white people if I could use that terminology confronting unruly law officers in in Arizona different across this country and many of them were women they would get right in the officers face and humility talk to him like he was a child because these particular people knew the law knew the first and second commandment amendment knew who they were knew what they could say knew how they could do it is that God calling me I thought he called me years ago buddies sometimes I get a text from the Holy Ghost everyone glory but I there was a whole group of all these white people confronting them like an Arizona in the town hall and they were they were they were they were refusing to show their identity because their identification because you can't you don't have to show the identification if there's not reason to suspicion you they were shouting that out the police officers were getting intimidated many of them walked away and they were very confronted repetitively and there's a hundreds of times see black people are not the only people who are unhappy with what we consider police brutality more white people are killed by white officers then black people are killed by white officers but the media doesn't tell us that but I thought about as i watch the encounters would people of color be as confrontive to the police officer shouting out their rights no because especially before we had cell phones and cameras they can't get by with that kind of stuff as quickly but when a white person confronts a police officer in the subconscious mind and i can't speak for white people except a little bit of me that is white I'm talking about that a little bit that's white and pays taxes it's like I'm a white taxpaying American you cannot arrest me you cannot handcuff me I'm not getting out of this car I'm not showing you my ID you cannot racially profile me I'm right we're not a race we run the thing we own everybody now you let me say that but in the back of your mind it's difficult for a non-black or not personal no color to experience America the way people of color do that's not always prejudice prejudice means to prejudge to judge before you've experienced if you see an integrated couple you tend to glance a second thought a second look not because you hate the integrated couple or if you see let's say see a same-sex couple you notice it you might look and just see would you do something like that would you marry would you go out with a person of color even on a front if you walk into a restaurant and you're not dating you just without with a co-worker who's of a different race are you self-conscious about that sometimes you forget it until somebody brings it up in Oklahoma it's still very unusual to see the interracial couples now notice on television they're showing it more and more in commercials it's amazing the subtle impact that's having on a generation that doesn't see rates the same way we see race but not the same way i am not intimidated anywhere by confronting a few years ago i would have been maybe because if i came to south tulsa a few years back especially after six o'clock at night i would have been more careful not to come when we started our church in jenks oklahoma in 1981 there was a law still on the books that said blacks could not be in the city limits past six o'clock at night so we debated on whether or not we'd have sunday night service when i bought the building i didn't go myself i sent my white associates to the bankers and the realtors and they did all the business they did not know that the president of the corporation was african-american until I walked in the bank in living color signed paper and told the right people that work for me to come on let's go have lunch now we created something that was pretty powerful in south tulsa still many people don't know the worst race Ryan American history occurred right here but look how we're getting along or are we getting along how many of you have how many of you non black for it people like for instance some black folk will come by this church and they would see the few blacks are in here and say oh so you're going down there in a white man's Church oh you think you're better than us that comment right there says that person thinks white people are better than they are or they wouldn't say that to you so you think you better than s you going down there and all of altar also they don't even blame nothing down it are you going to that church they did it at one time you judge people based on you prejudge that's just said that's where prejudice k you prejudge them and you've never even experience of how many of you set with a person not of your race I didn't see sat on sat with right how many of you have friends that you very casual with or none of your race of course that's all right there's any First Baptist downtown this is well cuz we expect that of you we expect a better attitude in this church then other churches simply because it is uniquely defined nikli uniquely designed our theology is different our sociology is different our spirituality is more expansive and we're growing into whatever that means we do we say we don't have beliefs but we believe a lot we just don't like believe in lies talk to me somebody so now we my advice in in this whole situation is that we that we we not just deal with the symptoms of our national pain but but what may be the source of these social melodies where there's fruit there's root anger is a signal emotion it's a secondary emotion to hurt usually somebody flying off the handle that signals there's something in that person's life a commotion a any motion a devotion in their life that is not making sense to them how many would say honestly you have a temper okay you guys go to the head of the class because you the only others words in it what we all have tempers some of us are more temperamental than others some of you gets get ticked off really quick some of your so laid-back so cool it takes a long time to get you really angry but oh when we do I always say when they take them glasses off they don't say much they start moving things around they start pulling courage that don't need to be pulled shifting things that don't need to be shifted they fixin to knock your head clean off it's just about a second from going all anybody know what I'm talking about there's some people that that are not going to be angry as some of us tend to be Jesus settle a the axe to the root cause and let me tell you something about law enforcement before i finish i have 20 more minutes the number one killer of police officers in law enforcement is suicide in this country the suicide rate is higher than the homicide rate we should be concerned about homicide but I'm also more concerned about suicide more people kill themselves then kill somebody else I don't have all the statistics of who those people are the suicidal but most of me black I can tell you that we black beetle black no don't kill them set will kill you first of all we kill I say we skip but most black folks scared of going to hell if they kill the number one killer police officers in law enforcement law enforcement suicide occurs 1.5 times more frequently compared to the general population the last full year study was in 2012 but here it broke down the 126 suicides into which fall into these following statistical areas watch this average age of officers dying by suicide was 42 the average time on the job for officers dying by suicide was 16 years what had they experienced in 16 years it wasn't just on the force but what maybe what was happening at home was that being in their mind remember these are law enforcement agents fifteen percent to eighteen percent about 150,000 officers suffer from post-traumatic stress that's a large percentage of people legal legalized off legally authorized to carry an arm they can kill you legally and they're suffering pds some of them have been soldiers I wouldn't give a gun to somebody that's suffering from post-traumatic stress untreated and even if it is treated you don't know if they take in the bills but that's the way the system is so here's a man and many women license with badges darks cool sunglasses helmet boots motorcycle squad car testosterone and ego bad and Matt and you took them off it doesn't matter your race if you tick them off does it matter your gender if you take if they got issues if they have issues with women and a woman goes off you saw that schoolteacher that was slung to the ground she was slightly resisting and I say to any particularly i'm going to don't resist just let them take you down because even if you're not resisting they might start saying stop resisting stop resisting stop resisting good thing we have these cameras because the face shouting stop resisting and you hear that then they have an excuse to arrest you because it's illegal to resist arrest ninety-one percent of suicide were by male officers so there's a tension there these kinds of things should be vetted clearly and succinctly and consistently before you put a badge on somebody we're dealing with just because a police officer is trained and licensed that doesn't mean that he's the healthiest person or that he doesn't have any problems in his life he may have outstanding warrants or tickets or he might hate his house like home life I know I have many friends who police officer ooh-hoo-hoo or who have been plus soldiers we're dealing with a situation in our country that cannot be dealt with from the surface we've got to go to the root cause of why all this stuff that's happening if you heard the conversation of the police officer that's who was taking the young lady the schoolteacher that he had thrown on it was at North Carolina simply or in Florida where was it Austin Texas yeah I almost want to call it awful Texas but Austin is one of my favorite cities in Texas throw it down the other one was saying you know why we did this to you because black people are more violent he didn't think that black people have been more violated violent people are tend tend to have been violated some of those dogs yesterday had been wounded and mistreated and violated and they were very sheepish they were free of us walking down on you wanted to hug them but they weren't they wanted the hug but they didn't trust the hug because sometimes before somebody who hugged them also hit them somebody who hugs you can hurt you somebody who hugs you can hate you in fact nobody could hate you or hurt you like somebody you love or who loves you all of us know what that's like just in family reunions you deal with her tits common ninety-one percent of suicides were male of the 63 of officers dying by suicide were single so marriage must help but I hadn't thought about sixty-three percent of offices you can read a lot into that what made him him the the the the male single single male feel alone or rejected or you don't know what was behind him he's cool he's a police officer he ought to be able to get anyone when he was he got his stuff together he's licensed he's got a bad head of the treatment and he can't get nobody or he can't keep anybody we don't know eleven percent of officers dying by suicide were military veterans firearms were used in 91.5 percent of police suicides he took his gun and shot himself that's all of this these statistics are something to march about or talk about the all lives do matter but this is a situation that that makes us study why we have law enforcement as it is without giving it more attentive we should pay them more and train them more same with schoolteachers school teachers don't have a badge they don't have a helmet they don't have a piece if they'd be killing somebody to part of the simple some of these crazy kids in these school rooms aren't you know standing and cussing the teacher out and you can't do anything and insulting them and fighting them now we came up where we came up there was corporal punishment it was legal it isn't today but in my neighborhood it was nothing unusual in my junior high school gym when we done dressed there was not not nobody even thought anything in a predominately ghetto area but the black brothers to have web belt webs on their arms or bat marks from cords from iron cords or rulers switches it was like tattoos everybody had one if you didn't have amox on you we didn't think you had parents in our community because we didn't get Whitman's we got people who taught us to whip we don't learn that in Africa beating the blood out of you I used to hear that in my house I beat the blood out of you where did that come from study the African culture nowhere on the continent was out a common practice no we learned it from slave owners and transfer that energy into our culture more than than the white culture though in Oklahoma in most places in the south kids get whipped how many you came from a generation y'all don't know that but how many of you came from a generation non-black over at that where were people whipping people got weapons spankins then we got in dr zeus whatever they chose to stop whipping you know now it's now it's it's it's illegal to you know to physically handle and sometimes it doesn't need I haven't whipped my kids very often because I didn't need to the first one said don't let it happen again I'm not a beater in that sense but if I had to if they absolutely refuse to obey I'd rather discipline them in love rather than a police officer drag them down the street and beat them I'd do it before somebody I let somebody else do it I haven't had but if I had to I would I'm old-fashioned you don't talk to a parent that way that's right teach some Authority in the home and they won't dishonor it outside the home when they call all these kids in that's doing all these killing sometimes they ought to bring the parents in two and let's have a discussion here let's stay away from violence as much as we can but teach them to respect authority I something sometimes I can talk to a strange kid I've never even seen I says I changed the tone of my voice all right that's enough boy sit out and the mother stand it right there Junior just stop that I've done it a grocery store Kane took any more sleep hey boy you hear your mama I be getting my grocery I'm gonna get on eyelid ever I saw my mother one time we were in London and my mother was anybody's kids with my mom we were in London and there was a little boy the host these people were so kind there to give us a tour of London they had the most unruly obnoxious little kid we had ever seen a little they were from Africa but they lived in London and they were sweet sweet people and we were walking across the street in in right in near druaga square and I was with the couple we were just casually talking and writing the intersection I heard a little kid screaming I turned around my mom had stopped in the middle of the of the intersection was 10 his tail I said I kept walking faster to come we never had another problem with that kid the whole week we were in London and his parents wrote me a month later and said I don't know what your mama did but it worked see we were raised with a Bible and a belt if they couldn't preach the gospel and as they beat the devil out of us I'm almost finished eleven percent of the police officers dying by suicide had legal problems pending law enforcement officers also have legal problems whether that's domestic or taxes some of them are closet alcoholics or drug addicts who are these people what world do they live in that we're insensitive to if white people i'm using that term advisedly took them if you see a gay couple and you're afraid of them or you're intimidating or gay person and you know they're gay instead of running from the more judging them try to engage that gay person in a conversation let them talk to you tell you of their pain if they have it and usually they do when did you first realize you were gay what does this mean talk to me before you judge them if you meet a a if you've never had a wonder one casual repetitive conversation with a person of color or if you're afraid of why I don't do I don't do why things I don't hang with the right people they do they thing I do mine that's the wrong attitude because you've judged the whole white race so my best friends are white people get to know somebody have an engaging conversation if you have neighbors or you work near somebody sit with them at lunch somebody you don't know I told you I made my son we always in Chicago there's more panhandling than you'll ever see in Tulsa but we where we lived at that time downtown at the wall outside the walgreens there was the same guy for weeks asking money by I taught my children to to be kind and to be generous and so they saw me giving all the time so they started giving and I said son do you notice that when I give to a person who's panhandling I always make eye contact I smile I nod I say hello good morning good afternoon sometimes I say what's your name he says yes I said all right you've been I taught you how to give now I want to talk to teacher better about how to live I'm not going to tell you when to do it but one of these times when you put money in that man's hand look at me always welcome in the eye but ask him his name sound and have a conversation with him will you do that son he said I'll do that I didn't know what was gonna take 10 or to the second time Julian sat down with the man found out his name had he ever been married did he have children did he provide war where he used to live does he have any contact with his family he knew the whole story and they were to hang out and talk chat eventually they moved to all those panhandles away so we don't know where he went but we knew where he lived downtown under which bridge he would sleep and my son's appreciation for the human experience changed dramatically because of that and now I don't judge Street people you see them a lot of them are criminals I mean that they just don't want to work about her big and saying you know god bless you and pray for me they know in Tulsa those terms are like magic it's like a politician said if the politician in this culture says says that he's a family man that means family values that usually means he's conservative Christian when saying that that gets a vote if you don't say God bless america or talk family values in this political system you're not going to be voted now those are word phrases that people use wrap your arms around yourself I got to stop there's a racist living in all of us it's not always a poison venomous racism or racists but as long as there are races there's going to be racism we have to accept that what we work on is defanging the racism the sense of superiority it's alright to acknowledge diversity or dif different religions different cultures different characters but when you demean somebody or elevate yourself over that person you've crossed the line sometimes we do it inadvertently we are basically judgmental because we all have opinions and most of those opinions we adopt from our parents I heard my dad come home from work never with venomous venom but he would speak of being mistreated on a job where he works 16 years and had in taught for off his Foreman how to do the job but never got an increase my dad had my mother so creases in his pants in his uniform so when he left we his kids would see him and a coiffed starched uniform with a crease down his front daddy always looked clean and neat cleaned his fingernails made sure he smelled good he always earned he was a janitor many times or custodian I helped him clean restaurants my brother night but Dad earn the respect not just in his word about hidden his character he identified to dwara of what might happen to us when we leave the house but that he never ever imparted any kind of bitterness inferiority complex or victim consciousness to us he faced the reality that was there and you got to do it to turn to some man sound bad not know I'm bad you also have sometimes you have to say I'm mad and you know I met we do get angry we do get hurt but we manage our pain we walk through and work through it together that's what we're trying to do here at all souls and we're having great success better than most other places few other churches would you ever see a black lives matter reference on the sign even if that may have made some people uncomfortable or blue lives matter on the sign any church you won't even go up to the north side and see a lot of churches or that have black lives matter on their on their own sign outdoors we are trying to make a difference keep playing soft because it makes me stop it is the cue for the article here's the way I'm going to close this with prayer let's pray how many you will honestly tell me that you know that you deal with prejudice okay that's good that's honest thank you how many of you will honestly tell me that sometimes racism lives in your thinking I told you last week I I would see if I saw two men fighting when I was a little kid if it was a black and white automatically I wanted the black one to win I don't have to know his name is nature's culture with his merited single if he was a wife beater or if he was John molester it didn't matter as long as he's black i want him doing that was just natural if it was two white guys I wanted to run into black trunks the winds or if it's two black guys I wanted to one of the black trunks now that's a little in green racism but it's not the full definition of racism because I didn't see one in fact I actually felt one was considered inferior and I wanted the inferior one to win I judged him my own brother inferior and did he realize it that's the part that's racism turn to someone some just as good as you and saying almost as good looking as you stand up all over the room we're going to stretch real good let's shift that in a zero oh we all need adjustments i went to a chiropractor first time in a while me and that mean doctor dr. Cole I didn't realize it had a little arthritis in the neck and the lower back I went in for pain in both places and I wasn't there long but boy it's been I had a massage after that sometimes you need deep tissue massages emotionally as well as physically every once in a while it's good to go several times a year to a chiropractor just to read to get realigned with your own self in your own soul we do have discs in our lives talking to somebody the other day was complaining about mold spores in the house I said sometimes they're mold spurs spores in the head or mold spores in your heart anybody ready to getting a new cleansing a renewal of yourself all of this that's going on in this country is really going to purchase of things that don't belong here any longer we get through it this election we will read n tify ourselves as the United States and all of you that have your Canadian passports and stuff in case some folks said to mr. Trump you or don't put don't put the wall up before I go over there cuz I'm going to Mexico if you become president let's pray together thank you eternal intelligence the God who is our Father and our mother thank you for peace that really does pass all understanding thank you for intelligent illumination about the realities of who we are and how we live that we get beyond believing belonging and behaving and extend ourselves to be coming thank you Lord that we can evolve each one of us into more expanded deeper experiences as people thank you for all souls church the unitarian and universalists in the more metaphysical appraisal that we can unite ourselves we can be united without uniformity that we don't have to go along to get along that we can mind many of the same things without having the same mind about everything thank you that we have this chance to be individuals and to cooperate and to cohabitate and to coalesce as human and humane entities on this planet we love each other in the name and nature of all that's good and God in the Christ consciousness and calling thank you God amen hug somebody loves somebody tell me they're wonderful it's time to go when you're not strong and I me a friend and a few k Oh won't be long but I'm moaning me so me no me no me you're a strong and i'll be in the ring Oh mentally we are your church and we are proud to be your church or at least a church that's having a positive impact on your life I am personally blessed to be your minister or at least a minister who you're allowing to speak into your life I hope you'll support our ministry and share your love beyond belief by texting love BB 2 for 1 444 or go to our website but you can just text love BB 2 for 1 444 and make your gift it's wonderful thank you be blessed and be a blessing

Channel: All Souls Unitarian

Views: 1,258

Rating: 4.7647057 out of 5

Keywords: All Souls, Unitarian, Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Universalists, Universalism, Sunday, service, sermon, minister, Conflict, perceptions, opinions, tensions, culture, race, racial justice, law enforcement, police brutality, prejudice, love, Bishop Carlton D. Pearson, Contemporary

Id: FZm4F189Qkk

Length: 51min 18sec (3078 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 25 2016