Juneteenth And Christianity
2023년 6월 18일Juneteenth And Christianity
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Tomorrow marks Juneteenth, a relatively new federal holiday, to mark the date when slavery was finally abolished in the United States. You see, slavery was officially aboslished two years earlier, when President Abraham Lincoln signed in Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. That provoked the Civil War. The slave-owning South lost. The trouble is, Texas, a member of the failed Confederacy, neglected to tell the Black people in their state that they were now free. For TWO YEARS, the Black population in Texas continued to wear chains. That’s when the Union army was dispatched to accomplish their deliverance. On the 19th of June, 1865, all slaves in the US were finally free. That’s Juneteenth.
There is a parallel in Christianity, more shocking still. Jesus. Christ died on the cross to take away the sins of the world and yet, today, 2,000 years later, many people around the world have yet to hear the good news that they’ve been freed from their sins. We need more than the Union army. We need an army of missioners willing to travel around the world to let all people know Jesus forgives their sins. Other forms of slavery remain: human trafficking, drug addiction, crushing debt, tolerated racism. All these enslave people and prevent them from loving full and free lives in Christ. We can join this noble cause by letting Christ deliver us from slavery so that we, in turn, might share our new freedom in Christ with everyone in the world.