Divine Intervention in a Secret Church of Enslaved People Before the Civil War
Late at night, meeting in secret, a church full of slaves were confronted by some whites people looking for runaway slaves. …And what does God do?
Late at night, meeting in secret, a church full of slaves were confronted by some whites people looking for runaway slaves. …And what does God do?
White Christians who evangelized to Black slaves had different motives – some greedy and sinful, and others sincere. Despite law after law, many Black folk found and held onto Jesus.
The hatred, the violence, the chaos of Bloody Sunday… Still they marched from Selma to Montgomery. Rev. Dr. King spoke words of life to a weary people.
A church legend about seven sleepers who sleep for generations and awake undecayed, unchanged – a revelation about bodily resurrection!
Martin Luther was thrilled to find theological connections with Abba Mika’el – a deacon from Ethiopia. They saw unity in their Christian faith looking backwards and forwards.
Only gentiles called Jesus “King of the Jews.” The Herods and the Caesars claimed many titles for themselves, but they perpetually felt their power threatened.
Christian Nationalism means one group’s notion of Christianity holds power regardless of what the majority want. It can even mean a dictatorship.
“We are finite creatures, but we touch the fringes of infinity” – Shannon Craigo-Snell
Irenaeus told us: “because of his measureless love, [Christ] became what we are… to enable us to become what he is.”