Alan Haven

Christ Follower + Husband + Experiencing & expressing life with friends and family

[Alan Haven @alanhaven]

“But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”
1 John 3:17-18
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[RELEVANT @RELEVANT]

SBC President J.D. Greear: "Southern Baptists, we need to say it clearly as a Gospel issue: black lives matter." https://t.co/mS8ripGjrD

[Alan Haven @alanhaven]

so that it builds itself up in love.”
Ephesians 4:15-16

[Alan Haven @alanhaven]

My thoughts & feelings on the #blacklivesmatter movement and my conviction on a way forward.

(A thread; not to draw attention but to share my thoughts).

Don’t mistake this as a means that I’m “sharing my solidarity publicly so I don’t feel more shame”.

[Alan Haven @alanhaven]

“speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined & held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow

[Alan Haven @alanhaven]

I pray we see heart change in our country, starting with my heart first. Let’s love like Jesus taught.

“I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:26

#BlackOutTuesday Black lives matter.