Prejudice, its still with us and we need to keep talking about it this is my small contribution to various conference's and training times. How do we stop ourselves from being so.

1. Prejudice
For D.N.A.
BTC ADVANCED NORWICH
PCC Foster be concerned Training
BTC Conference
Church Leadership Training Chesterfield Derbyshire
No: PP48 /1006

2. PREJUDICE
• opinion or feeling, especially
when formed without enough
thought or knowledge

3. The Dictionary - Definition
– prejudice
noun [C or U]
an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling,
especially when formed without enough
thought or knowledge:
– like
Laws against racial prejudice must be strictly
enforced.
[+ that] The campaign aims to dispel the
prejudice that AIDS is confined to the
homosexual community.
He claims that prejudice against homosexuals
would cease overnight if all the gay stars in the
country were honest about their sexuality.

4. Prejudice
verb [T]
Someone or something that
prejudices you influences you
unfairly so that you form an
unreasonable opinion about
something:
like
His comments may have
prejudiced the voters against
her.

5. Prejudice
adjective DISAPPROVING
showing an unreasonable dislike for
something or someone:
like
The campaign is designed to make
people less prejudiced about AIDS.
The media has been accused of
presenting a prejudiced view of
people with disabilities.
Some companies are prejudiced
against taking on employees who are
over the age of 40.

6. Prejudice
• prejudicial
adjective SLIGHTLY FORMAL
harmful or influencing people
unfairly:
like
• The judge decided that allowing the
videotape as evidence would be
prejudicial to the outcome of the
trial.
(From
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
)

7. The Scripture
• 1 Timothy 5:21 I charge you before God,
and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect
angels, that you observe these things
without preferring one before another,
doing nothing by partiality.
Preferring or
Prejudice
• 1 Timothy 5:21 I charge you in the sight of
God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen
angels, that you observe these things
without prejudice, doing nothing by
partiality. (Webster)

8. AND A QUOTE FROM JEFF
LUCAS
• “Prejudice is a subtle virus: it may
linger deep within and almost go
unnoticed, until the right difficulty
ignites it with ugly results.”

9. Prejudice
• unreasonable opinion
• formed without enough
thought or knowledge

10. What do we form such opinions
about?
• People
• Food
• Places
• Countries
• Ways of thinking
• Colour

11. What cause us to form such
opinions?
• Fear
• Emotion
• Protectionism *(usually an
emotional response rather than a
reasoned one)
• Ageism
• Youthism
• Money
• Poverty

12. So…
•*You can not educate
like that I am trained to
be a teacher and I
wasn’t trained like that.
•You can not run a
church like that I went
to theological college
and we were trained to
run a church and it is
not like that
•You cant lead a
worship group like that
I have been doing it for
10 years and it is not
like that.
•‘Have you ever
heard young children
say things like’ “I
don’t like that kind of
food” and then you
ask “when did you
try it?” and they
respond, “I never
have” so you say,
“so how do you know
you don’t like it” and
the answer is “I just
know!”

13. But If It Is Not Rational
Not Scriptural

14. Why then are we so willing to
be prejudice?
• There are times by the way when it
is right to be prejudiced – it is right
to be prejudiced against sin, evil,
even in knowing too much
(Romans 16:19 For your obedience
is come abroad unto all men. I am
glad therefore on your behalf: but
yet I would have you wise unto that
which is good, and simple
concerning evil.)

15. So what effect does our
Prejudice have on others?
• (The Prejudice exercise)
Lets play the game…

16. So how can we cease to be
prejudiced in the wrong way?
• Flip chart.

17. Adrian Hawkes
Prejudice
For DNA January 2005/06
BTC Advance course 14th
February 2006Norwich
BTC Conference May 2006 Chichester
PCC Foster care training 28th
April 2006
Leadership Training Chesterfield 13th
August 2011