Ode to Red Lip Theology

The one where Dylan talks about the importance of oppressed people writing about God!

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So I said, this can only happen when oppressed
people get a hold of the gospel.
So it's only been less than 100years, where oppressed people in
America anyway, have beenwriting about the gospel of
Jesus Christ. And so for allintents and purposes for faith,

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as a, maybe a few 1000, a couple1000 years old, it's all still
relatively new for oppressedpeople to be speaking about
their experiences, writing abouthaving scholarship with it, and
we're uncomfortable with it.
We're really uncomfortable withoppressed people seeing Jesus.

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What we want is for them to havea sanitized, constructed view of
Jesus that has nothing to dowith the liberation of their own
lives. I read a book, red liptheology. And that book can only
exist when oppressed people geta hold of the gospel, and dares

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to be free. Candice bimbo hasdared the community to tell her
that she can't be free inChrist. She has given us a
glimpse into what it might looklike. If we actually believed

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that Jesus came to set us free.
If we lived into not beingfilthy rags, but being good.
It's a crazy thought that Godmight actually like us. And she
did that by talking about herown experience, and needing a

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God who actually liked her, andnot just tolerated her. And that
can only happen when oppressedpeople get a hold of it. James
Cohen only happens. Because hegets an opportunity to see the
gospel and dares to be free init. There's to be more than a

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filthy rag, dares to live intobeing a child of the King. Not
some servant, who stumbled intofavor. But somebody who was
supposed to be there the entiretime. That not just you were

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handing me down your version ofJesus. But I got to experience
Jesus myself in this. This iswhat comes of it. I can only
exist, because oppressed peoplegot a hold of the gospel. Heck,
the legacy Museum and thatexperience could only exist

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because we got to hold thegospel. And we refuse to look at
it through the sanitized eyes ofthe oppressor, who gave it to
us. That we don't have toexperience God the way that you
want us to experience God thatwe can experience God on our own

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terms. And that's going to makeyou very uncomfortable, because
you won't be able to control it.
It won't look like how youwanted it to look. It won't be
some warmed up version of whatyou thought you understood. It

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won't be what you have deemedtruth. And the only kind of
truth that can exist, it won'tbe that because you don't have
my lens. You don't have myexperience. You don't know where
God found me better yet where Ifound myself when I actually

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experienced God. So you don'tget to to shape my truth for me.
Or tell me that my experience isinvalid. You don't get to do
that. That's why runningchurches now is a difficult
task. Because you can't justgive someone a cookie cutter

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explanation and expect them tojust follow your rules because
they can read. This is the firsttime in the history of this
faith. We're just abouteverybody who picks it up, can
read it and give you theiropinion of it. Reading

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Comprehension is a fairly newthing to have on mass. scale.
And because it exists, you can'tjust make up rules and expect
people to follow them. You can'ttell them that that's right. And
that's wrong in your life oryour experiences have no bearing

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on it. It just doesn't work thatway. Nothing does. But this is
only possible. red lip theologyis only possible Dylan sellers
is only possible.
Candice bembo is only possible.
Press people get a hold of thegospel and dare to be free.

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Thank you, Candace, for daringto be free. sharing your story
with the world. I know. I mightnot be your target audience. But
it hit me too. I'm humbled andI'm appreciative. Thank you for
sharing what you share with theworld. That's all I got to say
about that. I'm out