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Book Synopsis Black Church Empowered by : Isaiah Robertson
Download or read book Black Church Empowered written by Isaiah Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As long as racism exists, the Black Church must exist too. She must not only exist, she must thrive! But, what does "thriving" look like in the Black Church? How is "thriving" achieved? Black Church Empowered: Examining Our History, Securing Our Longevity offers a compelling vision for the future of the Black Church. It imagines what the Black Church of tomorrow must be, while peering into the past for context and guidance. This book fearlessly delves into controversial topics and confronts long-held conventional wisdom. The Black Church's beauty and blights are discussed. Common sense solutions are provided as suggestions to be considered. You are invited into a dialogue. Guiding this dialogue in each chapter are three pressing questions:*What have we done before?*What are we doing now?*What must we do going forward?Prayerfully, this crucial dialogue will lead to beneficial action on behalf of the Black Church. She is poised to blaze new trails in the 21st century and beyond. Black Church Empowered: Examining Our History, Securing Our Longevity is a piece of the roadmap clarifying the coordinates and potential direction of the journey.
Book Synopsis Empowering Black Youth of Promise by : Sandra L. Barnes
Download or read book Empowering Black Youth of Promise written by Sandra L. Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by the experiences of 772 Black churches, this book relies on a multidisciplinary, mixed-methodological lens to examine how today’s Black churches address the religious and non-religious educational and broader socialization needs of youth. Drawing from a cultural and ecological framework of village-mindedness, Barnes and Wimberly examine the intersected nature of place, space, and race to propel a conversation about whether and how the Black Church can become a more relevant and empowering presence for youth and the Black community.
Book Synopsis Black Megachurch Culture by : Sandra L. Barnes
Download or read book Black Megachurch Culture written by Sandra L. Barnes and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies how church cultural components are created, developed, and used to educate and empower adherents, and whether and how these tools are associated with the historic Black Church. The book is particularly interested in how large Black congregations - megachurches - use rituals found in worship, theology, racial beliefs, programmatic efforts, and other tools from their cultural repertoire to instruct congregants to model success in word and deed. The book's findings illustrate that Black megachurches strive to model success on various fronts by tapping into effective historic Black Church tools and creating cultural kits that foster excitement, expectation, and entitlement.
Download or read book Empower the People written by Ore Walker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-10 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Post-Black and Post-White Church by : Efrem Smith
Download or read book The Post-Black and Post-White Church written by Efrem Smith and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to creating and growing a more unified and holistic church is the multi-ethnic and Christ-centered community that offers a strong connection between theology and practical ministry models, and that nurtures believers who are wrestling with what it means to be the church of the Bible today. Most books on racial reconciliation or multi-ethnic ministry center on the theological foundations, history, or social problem aspects of the topic. The Post-Black and Post-White Church offers a practical, hands-on blueprint for developing and sustaining a multi-ethnic and Christ-centered community. Written by Efrem Smith, an innovative and passionate African American leader of the Covenant Evangelical Church and founding pastor of Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this groundbreaking book shares his skills, experience, and wisdom for congregations who want to grow into a multi-ethnic, missional identity. The Post-Black and Post-White Church connects theology and practical ministry models for wrestling with what it means to be church in an increasingly multi-ethnic world that is polarized by class, politics, and race. The book embraces Jesus as one who was both Jewish and multi-ethnic and focuses on a theology of reconciled, multi-ethnic, and missional leadership.
Book Synopsis From Holy Power to Holy Profits by : Walter Malone (Jr.)
Download or read book From Holy Power to Holy Profits written by Walter Malone (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stresses the need for the black church to realise and accept its responsibility for eradicating economic injustice in the African American community.
Book Synopsis African American Church Leadership by : Paul Cannings
Download or read book African American Church Leadership written by Paul Cannings and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can African American church leaders maximize their leadership potential? What are current models for effective leadership in the African American Christian community? This book answers those questions and more with up-to-date research and current best practices regarding leadership principles and strategies. African American church communities and those who interact with and work with these communities will find this book particularly useful. ParkerBooks are written to equip and encourage African American ministry leaders.
Author :Garth W. Black Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781542747721 Total Pages :164 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (477 download)
Book Synopsis Empowered by the Grace of God by : Garth W. Black
Download or read book Empowered by the Grace of God written by Garth W. Black and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel overwhelmed with the trials and difficulties of your life? Are love, joy, and peace no longer words that describe your innermost feelings? Do you struggle with self-control? Are there temptations in your life that your own willpower is inadequate to help you make the right choice? Do you often feel that you are -at the end of your rope- and that you can no longer -cope- with daily struggles? As a Christian, there is strength and power available to you through the Holy Spirit to meet the challenges listed above. Why, when, and how I receive this power from God through the Spirit are questions that this book addresses.
Book Synopsis Empowered Church Leadership by : Brian J. Dodd
Download or read book Empowered Church Leadership written by Brian J. Dodd and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting church leadership on an apostolic footing, Brian J. Dodd helps you to see the necessity of prayer, followership, partnership, servanthood and willingness to run against the current if you are to lead where God wants you to lead.
Book Synopsis Righteous Discontent by : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Download or read book Righteous Discontent written by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against emotional and physical defeat. Focusing on the National Baptist Convention, the largest religious movement among black Americans, Higginbotham shows us how women were largely responsible for making the church a force for self-help in the black community. In her account, we see how the efforts of women enabled the church to build schools, provide food and clothing to the poor, and offer a host of social welfare services. And we observe the challenges of black women to patriarchal theology. Class, race, and gender dynamics continually interact in Higginbotham’s nuanced history. She depicts the cooperation, tension, and negotiation that characterized the relationship between men and women church leaders as well as the interaction of southern black and northern white women’s groups. Higginbotham’s history is at once tough-minded and engaging. It portrays the lives of individuals within this movement as lucidly as it delineates feminist thinking and racial politics. She addresses the role of black Baptist women in contesting racism and sexism through a “politics of respectability” and in demanding civil rights, voting rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities. Righteous Discontent finally assigns women their rightful place in the story of political and social activism in the black church. It is central to an understanding of African American social and cultural life and a critical chapter in the history of religion in America.
Download or read book Ready to Lead written by Brian Taylor and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an ongoing narrative that has often been taken as truth in the Body of Christ: “Black people will follow a White pastor but White people will never follow a Black pastor.” This book acknowledges the history from which this narrative came while looking to push a new narrative where the whole Body of Christ can benefit from the gift of Black leadership. Many books have asked, "How do we see diversity in the pews?" But this book looks to see diversity in the pulpits and leadership rooms of these churches.
Book Synopsis The Black Church by : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Download or read book The Black Church written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Book Synopsis Fortress Introduction to Black Church History by : Anne H. Pinn
Download or read book Fortress Introduction to Black Church History written by Anne H. Pinn and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, co-authored by a black minister and a black theologian, provides an overview of the shape and history of major black religious bodies: Methodist, Baptist, and Pentecostal. It introduces the denominations and their demographics before relating their historical development into the groups that are known today.
Book Synopsis The Divided Mind of the Black Church by : Raphael G. Warnock
Download or read book The Divided Mind of the Black Church written by Raphael G. Warnock and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at the identity and mission of the Black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community’s fight for personhood and freedom. Such is the central tension in the identity and mission of the Black church in the United States. For decades the Black church and Black theology have held each other at arm’s length. Black theology has emphasized the role of Christian faith in addressing racism and other forms of oppression, arguing that Jesus urged his disciples to seek the freedom of all peoples. Meanwhile, the Black church, even when focused on social concerns, has often emphasized personal piety rather than social protest. With the rising influence of white evangelicalism, biblical fundamentalism, and the prosperity gospel, the divide has become even more pronounced. In The Divided Mind of the Black Church, Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., traces the historical significance of the rise and development of Black theology as an important conversation partner for the Black church. Calling for honest dialogue between Black and womanist theologians and Black pastors, this fresh theological treatment demands a new look at the church’s essential mission.
Book Synopsis For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church by : James H. Cone
Download or read book For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church written by James H. Cone and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Spirit-Empowered Church by : Alton Garrison
Download or read book A Spirit-Empowered Church written by Alton Garrison and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Spirit-Empowered Church, Alton Garrison points us to the heart of dynamic church growth: creating Spirit-empowered disciples who are involved in five activities--connect, grow, serve, go, and worship--to change individuals, families, and communities with the love and power of God's mighty Spirit.
Download or read book Elijah's Mantle written by Diane Reeder and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the successful model of The Summit Group, the authors of this compiled volume guide the reader through the process of preparing the next African American ministry leaders to be ready for the leadership. The book provides teaching and case studies for successful succession of leadership in ministries, businesses and churches. Today's leaders must prepare future leaders, preparing their organizations for change, to be ready for future leaders, and exercising grace and wisdom during and after the transition of leadership. African American leaders will find this book to be an essential guide through that process. Parker Books are written to equip and encourage African American ministry leaders.
