Dear @DavidAFrench the answer to your question is quite simple. (1) The black church’s Christian identity is grounded in the Old Testament God who liberates the creation, evangelicals begin with Paul and *then* Jesus who’s trying to save people from creation. (2) Eschatology...
(2) Eschatology: evangelicals are still basically fundamentalist and premillennial. The black church’s eschatology is more amillennial (like the Lutherans). (3) Evangelicals are lamenting the loss of a cultural power/influence, esp. in the South, that the black church never had.
Evangelicals in America have never viewed themselves in exile. The Black church always identifies more with exilic Israel than individual Paul-ergo, the black church orients itself around a theology of suffering/hope. Evangelicals, a theology individual salvation/social power.
Finally, so, when you lose social power, you think the world is coming to an end and you start twisting the Bible to make 2 Chron 7:14 about America when it’s not. Spend a year in a black church and you’ll see the difference. Listen to @edeweysmith@pastoremase and @johnfaisonsr
Much, much more I could say.....I wish more evangelicals knew the theology of the black beyond King, Douglass, and Washington.
*black church
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Oops. The 1950s suburban nuclear family was a massive cultural mistake: men were away from their children most of the week, the homes were terribly lonely for women, teenagers were around peers all the time and became delinquent, adultery exploded, men were lost & anxious,
mothers were viewed as the only important adult in the home and bore too much of the responsibility for managing all aspects of family life, fathers were just a source of income, suburban social life was boring, unhappy & frustrated mothers became distant from their children,
homes became increasingly child-centered and obsessed with performance, adult masculinity was reduced being a "company man" and spending time engaging in hobbies; teens had the financial means to be "me-centered" and became more nihilistic, rebellious, cynical, & materialistic;
Wrong: I’ve written two books on Thomas Sowell. These posts are tiring & silly. Welfare destroyed marriage only among blacks in the lower quintile (the poor). Most blacks are not on welfare and @rothmus is presenting some nonsense here. Here’s why @prageru is dead wrong & lying:
(1) AFDC grew in expansion to blacks in the early 1970s after Jim Crow. In 1970, approximately 22.3% of the African American population was receiving (welfare) AFDC benefits. Welfare impacted marriage for the 22.3% NOT the 77.7%. Conservatives are misleading people grossly here!
(2) This overlooks the relationship between employment and marriage for black men. This economic oversight is extraordinary. Black marriages declined overall when blue collar jobs left inner-cities, impacting low-income blacks more acutely. Men won’t typically marry if they feel shame about providing for a family (but they will have kids, thanks to welfare & women earning more money in their own)
One of the largest influences on traditional black church music during slavery was the Scottish Hebrides Gaelic Lined-Out Psalm singing tradition. The Scots-Irish & enslaved blacks were so integrated as “lower-class” people that slaves learned & adapted lined-out Scottish forms.
This is what the original Scottish Gaelic Psalm singing sounded like.
Lined-out Scottish forms emerged in contexts where hymn books were not available. This tradition arrived with the Scots-Irish in Appalachia and across the Deep South. In fact, the Scots introduced the slaves to something called, “fried chicken.” The rest is history…
Evangelicals are gullible because they lust after social power and the influence of people "in high places." The GOP has been using white evangelicals as a political pawn to maintain power since the 1970s. Donald Trump is signaling that he could not care less about evangelicals.
Revivalist evangelicals, for some reason, were led to believe that being brought into the "halls of power" would influence America's faith, morals, and politics. The black church did not fall for this evangelical approach, given evangelical's history on race during Jim Crow.
Donald Trump's GOP does not care about evangelicals because they know that, no matter what, conservative evangelicals, are not going to vote for Joe Biden. The democrats have moved too far left on social/moral issues so the GOP has conservative evangelical voters locked in!
Is “Christian Masculinity/Raising Boys” the new $$ hustle? This guy wants to charge y’all $65 to teach y’all how to have friends and conduct a rite-of-passage programs for your sons. Dads, you don’t need this. I can tell you how to do this for free! 😂😂😂
You guys are not helpless children. You can figure out how to have fun with each other & your sons on your own terms. No website needed! 😎 1) How to have friends: do stuff together on a regular basis (work, fun, study, listen) and “encourage each other daily.”
2) Rite-of-passage has three ingredients: a) separation from an environment of ease, comfort, and familiarity. b) initiation—introduce challenging obstacles to overcome that requires boys to find new strengths and demands encouragement from peers and elders. Meaningful + fun!
One of the biggest differences between the PCA and the PC(USA), is that the PCA is full of pastors like Rev. Zachary Garris who believe that the transatlantic slave trade is supported by the Bible. He’s a graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS.
Rev. Garris only believes that the abuses of slavery were wrong, not chattel slavery itself. This raises several questions. 1) How did he graduate from RTS holding these views? and 2) How did he pass his ordination exams holding these views?
Currently, less than 2% of the pastors in the PCA are African American. Why on earth would anyone encourage black men to pursue being a pastor in a denomination where pastors still believe there was no difference between OT & NT slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade?