{"id":13590,"date":"2026-06-01T18:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=13590"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:58:33","slug":"the-church-is-adopting-the-worlds-way-of-dealing-with-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=13590","title":{"rendered":"The Church Is Adopting The World\u2019s Way Of Dealing With Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Ken Ham.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A church in South Carolina has been in the news lately after it posted a video showing the graduation of its 2026 \u201cGracism\u201d <\/em>class, who all left as \u201cministers of reconciliation.\u201d<\/em> What is \u201cgracism\u201d<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears the church training came from a group called Gracism Global, which defines the word as \u201cextending positive favor to other people regardless of, and sometimes because of, their color, class, or culture.\u201d<\/em> Their website doesn\u2019t give much more information than that beyond \u201cThe Eight Sayings of a Gracist\u201d:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. I will lift you up<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. I will cover you<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. I will share with you<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. I will honor you<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. I will stand with you<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. I will consider you<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. I will celebrate with you<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. I will heal with you<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    When you read through the short description of each of these sayings, it sounds very much like typical DEI trainings that emphasize and draw attention to so-called \u201crace\u201d and divide everyone into either oppressed or oppressor classes, simply based on what the person looks like on the outside (for example, under \u201cI will share with you,\u201d<\/em> it says, \u201cOpening up networks and resources to others who are systematically downtrodden, and refusing special treatment that may hurt them\u201d<\/em>). Of course, the words used can have so many different meanings; it\u2019s hard to know what\u2019s really meant by them (which might be purposeful!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As Answers in Genesis<\/em> speaker Bryan Osborne shows in his book Woke Injustice<\/a>, the world\u2019s way of dealing with racism\u2014which is often adopted by the church\u2014not only doesn\u2019t work, but is completely unbiblical. It always ends up watering down the gospel<\/a> or teaching a \u201cnew gospel\u201d (which Paul says is no gospel at all).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The true answer to racism is not highlighting our differences and emphasizing them over and over again. Nor is it judging people based on the shade of their skin (this happens constantly in woke\/DEI trainings\u2014anyone with a light shade of skin is automatically an oppressor, and anyone with a dark shade of skin is automatically oppressed). The true answer to racism is understanding the human race based on biblical history and the gospel of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If we want to end the sin of racism, we must teach the biblical truth found in Genesis that we\u2019re all one race (which has been confirmed by science), all descended from Adam, and therefore all sinners in need of a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. The ultimate problem isn\u2019t skin\u2014it\u2019s sin! That\u2019s the root cause of racism, and the only answer to this spiritual problem is a spiritual solution: the gospel! In fact, the solution to all of man\u2019s issues is God\u2019s Word and the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    About the Author: Ken Ham<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is an\u00a0author, speaker, and Founder and CEO of\u00a0Answers in Genesis\u00a0and its two popular interests: the acclaimed\u00a0Creation Museum\u00a0and the internationally known\u00a0Ark Encounter.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    By Ken Ham. A church in South Carolina has been in the news lately after it posted a video showing the graduation of its 2026 \u201cGracism\u201d class, who all left as \u201cministers of reconciliation.\u201d What is \u201cgracism\u201d? It appears the church training came from a group called Gracism Global, which defines the word as \u201cextending positive favor to other people regardless of, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[155],"tags":[200,179],"coauthors":[475],"class_list":{"0":"post-13590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-apostacy","8":"tag-god","9":"tag-usa"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-01-185448.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13592,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions\/13592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13590"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=13590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}