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Os Guinness says the book of Exodus is the center of God's work in human history. He's right & the Matt 28:18-20-focussed evangelicals are misguided. The covenant of redemption is the center. The black church models centering on "Big God" Exodus theology. amazon.com/Magna-Carta-Hu…
Biggest Guinness take away: so many black students were lied to regarding the theology of the traditional black church & owe many now black evangelicals & black church leaders a massive apology. Herman Bavinck exposes the theological flaw of American "Great Commission" types.
He explains the George Whitefield inspired flaw this way: "[Evangelicalism] has an aggressive character, seeks only conversion, and looks for the seat of faith in the will...But it regard conversion as a sudden, momentary, and immediate act...
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The sermon on this morning”What She Did With Her Pain” 2 Samuel 21:8-11. Preached by @somethingwithin .
It is auspicious time- and an auspicious text for this time. It is the story of using scripture and religion in the hopes of appeasing God by finding blame in others. @somethingwithin #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackChurch #ROHCC1997
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i read things like this and think of my church tradition which, though imperfect, made space for testimony, for weeping, for terrible pain and terrible joy all mixed together, for "shouting" (which isn't always about joy). #primalchristianspirituality #blackchurch
A personal experience is when my Auntie was leading prayer and called my wife and I up to the pulpit, wrapped an arm around each of us, and loudly and publicly named and prayed for our grief from the loss of our infant daughter #primalchristianspirituality #blackchurch
It was not simply emotionalism, as the #blackchurch is sometimes accused of
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