{"id":8059,"date":"2022-05-31T12:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.presbyterianfoundation.org\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:21:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:21:51","slug":"how-do-we-metastasize-the-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presbyterianfoundation.louderstaging.com\/ko\/resources\/news\/how-do-we-metastasize-the-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"\uc88b\uc740 \uc810\uc744 \uc5b4\ub5bb\uac8c \uc804\uc774\uc2dc\ud0ac \uc218 \uc788\uc744\uae4c\uc694?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking on the broadcast \u201cLeading Theologically\u201d the day following the shootings at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Presbyterian author, speaker, facilitator, composer and musician \ub370\uc774\ube44\ub4dc \ub77c\ubaa8\ud2b8<\/a> said that while it\u2019s important \u201cto name the horror of what humans are doing to each other,\u201d it\u2019s also crucial that we acknowledge that most of the world is at peace.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow do we metastasize the goodness?\u201d he asked host the Rev. Dr. Lee Hinson-Hasty of the Presbyterian Foundation. \u201cHow do we spread the things that are right and leave no room for the rest?\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen to the \u201cHow Change Really Happens\u201d conversation between LaMotte and Hinson-Hasty \uc5ec\uae30<\/a> \ub610\ub294 \uc5ec\uae30<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t advocate looking away\u201d from recent awful news reports of violence in Texas and New York and California, LaMotte said. \u201cBut in order to be mobile at all, we have to keep some semblance of hope. I need to keep reminding myself that there\u2019s beauty everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying everything\u2019s cool. It\u2019s definitely not OK,\u201d LaMotte told Hinson-Hasty. \u201cWe have serious work to do. But to do the work, I need to not be completely immobilized by despair, because hope leads to action, and action can lead to any number of possibilities. With inaction, things generally go in the same direction, in my experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have work to do. It\u2019s a long struggle, so how do we maintain sustainability in a time when we see people burning out left and right,\u201d including nurses, teachers and pastors, \u201cwho catch it from people on all sides,\u201d LaMotte said. \u201cWhen I see teachers, I always thank them for their service. Pastors: than you for your service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just before the pandemic began, a friend gave LaMotte two rules for community: bring what you have and ask for what you need. LaMotte appreciated those rules so much he wrote and recorded a song about them. \u201cI never want to be the voice that further burdens people who are already carrying too much,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is toxic self-aggrandizement to thinking I have to be the one to fix this all the time. And yet we need to show up for the work at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus does \u201ca wild thing\u201d issuing the Great Commandment, LaMotte said. He simply answers the question, \u201cwhich he never did,\u201d LaMotte said, normally electing to answer questions from disciples and others with parables or with another question. Jesus\u2019 answer is to love God and love your neighbor as yourself. In Matthew\u2019s account<\/a>, he adds, \u201cOn these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Jesus, \u201ceverything else you ever learned has to be filtered through these two things,\u201d LaMotte said. \u201cI don\u2019t know why Christians don\u2019t hold up those verses at football games.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe could start a movement!\u201d Hinson-Hasty replied before asking about a \u201cLet\u2019s be neighbors\u201d sign hanging behind LaMotte. The sign read: \u201cYou are our neighbors. No mater who you vote for, your skin color, where you are from, your faith, or who you love, we will try to be here for you. That\u2019s what community means. Let\u2019s be neighbors.\u201d To learn more, go \uc5ec\uae30<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LaMotte said that message became even more valuable following the 2016 election, when in his neighborhood \u201cit felt like the sidewalks had been torn out. There was generalized fear and anxiety. People lost their commonality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen your car battery is dead, no matter who you voted for, knock on my door and I\u2019ll jump your car battery,\u201d LaMotte said. \u201cWe have to be in relationship because it matters. When we silo, we can\u2019t make decisions together. People are seldom transformed by being rejected. They\u2019re transformed by love \u2026 If we\u2019re humanized, we can be transformed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re going to make any change in the world,\u201d Hinson-Hasty said, \u201cwe\u2019re going to have to know each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m also really conscious you and I are straight white guys with U.S. passports,\u201d LaMotte said. \u201cWe sit here with a great deal of privilege. My to-do list is not everybody\u2019s to-do list. \u2026 I\u2019m not in a place to issue edicts as to what everybody ought to do. I think this is what we ought to do, but it\u2019s a lot easier to see systems from the edges of the systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making peace, LaMotte said, is not the same as making nice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt involves engaging conflict. It\u2019s really hard work,\u201d both in families and in the public square. \u201cIf you\u2019re not engaging,\u201d LaMotte said, \u201cit\u2019s not peace work.\u201d<\/p>\n

LaMotte\u2019s new book, \u201cYou are Changing the World Whether You Like It or Not<\/a>,\u201d will be published this fall by Chalice Press.<\/p>\n

Hinson-Hasty called LaMotte \u201cthe perfect guest for today, a reminder we are connected to each other, that hope \u2014 not despair \u2014 is the final word.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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