Comments on: Ghetto hospitality http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/08/28/ghetto-hospitality/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:18:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Phil http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/08/28/ghetto-hospitality/#comment-130 Phil Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:44:48 +0000 http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/08/28/ghetto-hospitality/#comment-130 <p>Renoa, </p> <p>I'm sorry. Thank you so much for helping us see how our (my) own labels and language can offend and hurt. And for assisting me in seeing things more clearly through the eyes of perhaps a modern day version of the woman at the well. In Him, </p> <p>Phil</p> Renoa,

I’m sorry. Thank you so much for helping us see how our (my) own labels and language can offend and hurt. And for assisting me in seeing things more clearly through the eyes of perhaps a modern day version of the woman at the well. In Him,

Phil

]]> By: Renoa Batista http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/08/28/ghetto-hospitality/#comment-129 Renoa Batista Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:27:10 +0000 http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/08/28/ghetto-hospitality/#comment-129 Not to mention the story about Jesus and the Samaritan woman. The woman is like an outcast of the community, kind of like the people who live in the ghetto are outcasts of the larger community, and she does speak to Jesus in an uninviting manner because its a man speaking to this woman of lower status (radically patriarchal society) offering more than sympathetic condolences. He offers her a better way and tells her what is wrong with her life in relation to God. So don't be afraid to go beyond your comfort zone because as followers of Christ we are meant to suffer for him and transgress boundaries of race and class. Im talking too much. ttyl Not to mention the story about Jesus and the Samaritan woman. The woman is like an outcast of the community, kind of like the people who live in the ghetto are outcasts of the larger community, and she does speak to Jesus in an uninviting manner because its a man speaking to this woman of lower status (radically patriarchal society) offering more than sympathetic condolences. He offers her a better way and tells her what is wrong with her life in relation to God. So don’t be afraid to go beyond your comfort zone because as followers of Christ we are meant to suffer for him and transgress boundaries of race and class. Im talking too much. ttyl

]]> By: Renoa Batista http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/08/28/ghetto-hospitality/#comment-128 Renoa Batista Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:07:47 +0000 http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/08/28/ghetto-hospitality/#comment-128 There is a certain attitude that people express because they were raised/lived in the ghetto. Its not an attitude meant to oust other people out but rather to remind them that a ghetto is a ghetto, a commuity of poor, non-privileged individuals who have to deal with constant struggle and hardship because they continue to be in that cycle of poverty. I don't really understand how you take his expression of "street-level" cynically because you're not really involved in the fights. I respect your charisma but I take it offensively when the term "ghetto" is used to refer to anything but place. I was raised in the ghetto and the term itself is used as a downgrading description to refer to people or how they act since it makes a generalization. There is a certain attitude that people express because they were raised/lived in the ghetto. Its not an attitude meant to oust other people out but rather to remind them that a ghetto is a ghetto, a commuity of poor, non-privileged individuals who have to deal with constant struggle and hardship because they continue to be in that cycle of poverty. I don’t really understand how you take his expression of “street-level” cynically because you’re not really involved in the fights. I respect your charisma but I take it offensively when the term “ghetto” is used to refer to anything but place. I was raised in the ghetto and the term itself is used as a downgrading description to refer to people or how they act since it makes a generalization.

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