Faith seeking understanding– without race
“It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’ clock on Sunday morning.” {Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.} Last month, Barna released a report on the differences in spiritual progress according to the social construct of race. I had planned to discuss this sooner but was distracted, namely by the protests after our most recent […]
Read MoreThe conversation I entered into with the attendees of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s ChurchWorks this week picks back up and concludes here: I suppose that it is a matter of pride and it’s a mind game. James uses the descriptor “double- minded” when speaking of the doubter who prays[i] but this two-ness is found both in […]
Read MoreThis week, I was in Decatur, Georgia and presented at ChurchWorks, a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship conference for ministers of spiritual formation and education. I, along with several others, spoke about the theological rumblings and ruminations of our shared ministry with Christ. I will present part one of the message here: “Jesus loves the little children/ […]
Read More“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing the faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? Did […]
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The Raceless Gospel 