The SBC is smarter about planting black churches than the PCA. In 1995, I urged PCA leaders to focus on the black middle class & HBCUs. To date 1% of PCA ministers are black. Why? B/C the “racial reconciliation” subculture redirected attention to black inner-cities. Didn’t work.
It’s great to see so many black SBC churches thriving and pipelining people into seminary from the black middle-class community because, historically, that’s where black leaders come from like Dubois, MLK, Thurgood Marshall, Ralph Bunche, etc. I tried. I really did.
Imagine had RUFs been at Howard, Hampton, Spelman/Morehouse, etc. in 2000? We would have 2 decades worth of folks. And the men were there to do it, but they were only given $$ option of “multi-ethnic” urban & they left or were pushed out by the racial reconciliation folks.
I was there. It happened. I saw it. Black-focussed, middle-class focussed weren’t given $$$. The inner-city/racial reconciliation cohort often blocked it. I saw so many guys hurt. So, a lot of them planted Baptist churches or non-denoms instead.
But the Baptists were/are sociologically more astute and did what I tried to recommend back in 1995. You can see the results! aampca.org
Baptists went to the black middle class. Genius!! Black leaders didn’t have to pass through the “racial reconciliation” gatekeepers that have generally ignored building with the black middle class. Congrats Baptists!! Y’all are smart! 😂👊🏾🤯 christianitytoday.com/news/2020/augu…
Maybe there’ll be a PCA article like this in 25 years. A couple of us, in the mid-90s really did try to point the PCA to black middle-class. Some seem *finally* open. Glad to see the excitement about RUF an HBCUs. But that was on the table 25 yrs ago. Better late than never...
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