“The Emancipation Proclamation was delivered in 1863, long before the reality of equality has occurred. In 1863 it was law, it was true, it was binding — and we’ve spent more than one hundred years trying to hammer it into reality. In the death and resurrection of Christ, the emancipation of all things from slavery to sin and brokenness has been established; we’re now in the period of civil war and civil rights, meting out those things into an earthly expression. We are in a battle, working to see His will on earth experienced as it is in heaven.”
