by Marcia Mount Shoop
Romans 14:1-12
“Accountability practices are about believing in someone’s best possibilities. Accountability is about love.
Accountability is about believing in the strength of love to hold us as we work together to do right by each other. If I let someone hurt me over and over again and don’t hold them accountable, I am struggling to believe in that person’s full humanity and in the power of love, itself, to do hard things.
What does it look like and feel like to live in a culture that avoids accountability? What does it look like and feel like to exist in a culture that has an aversion to accountability? Well, it looks and feels a lot like white churches and white institutions.
White systems can spend a lot of our energy on being defensive, and rigid, and brittle. We can feign a collective fragility and dress it up like it is piety and propriety. White systems struggle with love, because whiteness was not created for love, it was created for oppression. And oppression is the antithesis of love.”
Watch the full GCPC service on 9/17/23 here
(Scripture and sermon begin at 50:10)