Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us

By Chanté Griffin

Book Overview

Discover a boundless love for your Black Neighbor with this inspiring and actionable guide to moving toward racial healing.

"Griffin's work invites us to embark on a transformative journey toward a more inclusive and loving Christian community."--J. W. Buck, PhD, author of Everyday Activism

Jesus calls you to love your neighbor, and in the fight against racial injustice, that call includes your Black Neighbor: your Black colleagues, the Black congregants at church, the Black family in your neighborhood. Yet maybe you're unsure of how best to show your love, or maybe you fear either saying or doing the wrong thing.

In Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself, Chant Griffin equips you to see and love your Black Neighbor with God's deep, holistic love. Using Black Love Lenses birthed from African American cultural values, you'll learn meaningful ways through which you can see and care for your Black Neighbor:

- Intimacy: cultivate intentional closeness and community
- Honor: show overflowing respect and love
- Stand Up: use your voice and influence to advocate
- God's Gifts: allow God's resources to flow through you
- The Spirit of Love: love lavishly through intercessory prayers

Through guided readings, prayers, and heart checks, you'll undergo a spiritual and relational transformation that grows a deeper love for your Black Neighbor and yourself. Are you ready to answer Jesus's call?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593445597
• ISBN13: 9780593445594
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Prh Christian Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A needed book

So grateful for this beautiful work by Chante Griffin. With vulnerability, truth, and the gift oisstorytelling, Chante encourages the reader on the work to love your Black neighbor. With research and practical application, this book will challenge and equip you to truly do the work to see and care for others. I love the heart check questions that can be helpful for individual processing and group discussions. The clear thread for all of us to hold to is the work of the Spirit within us and around us to bring about this redemptive work as we take steps forward.