Revelations of a White Man in a Black Church

Download or read book Revelations of a White Man in a Black Church written by Pierce Bradley Story and published by Pierce Story. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not just another book about racial reconciliation. Part history, part societal analysis, part vision, and part strategy, this book illuminates how society is using American Christianity's racially-tarnished history to diminish its influence, and what Christians need to do to take back control. From the historical causes of racial divisions within our churches to the subtle but persistent wars that society is waging against the faith, the author weaves an intricate tapestry that illustrates how society has evolved to negatively stereotype Christianity and many of its core teachings as racist. Christian blacks and Christian whites now fight as if on a smoke-engulfed battlefield, unknowingly waging war on one another even as they try to win the same spiritual and social battles around them. Seen through the lens of the slow drip of societal change, the author exposes Christians as not only siloed within individual, racially, and socially isolated congregations, but unwittingly aiding in the marginalization of their faith within American culture. Not only are Christians failing to have the impact they could and should, they are inadvertently supporting society's efforts to simultaneously divide the races, split the nation, and conquer any hope of Christianity's influence. Offering solid solutions for the future of American Christianity and its influence on a world in need, the author delves deeply and precisely into the dramatic actions that both Christian whites and Christian blacks must take. By becoming "upright" as the Bible commands, and changing the way they think, speak, act, and interact, Christian whites and Christian blacks can clear the smoke from the battlefield, unite in action across denominations and races, and bring glory to God and a New Awakening to the faith.