Evangelism in the African American Community
Author: Louis R. Jones
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 0595291317
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Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835
Author: Cedrick May
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010-01-25
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0820336335
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study focuses on the role of early African American Christianity in the formation of American egalitarian religion and politics. It also provides a new context for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed, spread, and interacted with transatlantic religious cultures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Cedrick May looks at the work of a group of pivotal African American writers who helped set the stage for the popularization of African American evangelical texts and the introduction of black intellectualism into American political culture: Jupiter Hammon, Phillis Wheatley, John Marrant, Prince Hall, Richard Allen, and Maria Stewart. Religion gave these writers agency and credibility, says May, and they appropriated the language of Christianity to establish a common ground on which to speak about social and political rights. In the process, these writers spread the principles that enabled slaves and free blacks to form communities, a fundamental step in resisting oppression. Moreover, says May, this institution building was overtly political, leading to a liberal shift in mainstream Christianity and secular politics as black churches and the organizations they launched became central to local communities and increasingly influenced public welfare and policy. This important new study restores a sense of the complex challenges faced by early black intellectuals as they sought a path to freedom through Christianity.
Evangelism & Discipleship in African-American Churches
Author: Lee N. June
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0310221390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here is a comprehensive guide to the how-to's of the African-American church and many aspects of its ministry.
Urban Apologetics
Author: Eric Mason
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2021-04-06
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 031010095X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Urban Apologetics examines the legitimate issues that Black communities have with Western Christianity and shows how the gospel of Jesus Christ—rather than popular, socioreligious alternatives—restores our identity. African Americans have long confronted the challenge of dignity destruction caused by white supremacy. While many have found meaning and restoration of dignity in the black church, others have found it in ethnocentric socioreligious groups and philosophies. These ideologies have grown and developed deep traction in the black community and beyond. Revisionist history, conspiracy theories, and misinformation about Jesus and Christianity are the order of the day. Many young African Americans are disinterested in Christianity and others are leaving the church in search of what these false religious ideas appear to offer, a spirituality more indigenous to their history and ethnicity. Edited by Dr. Eric Mason and featuring a top-notch lineup of contributors, Urban Apologetics is the first book focused entirely on cults, religious groups, and ethnocentric ideologies prevalent in the black community. The book is divided into three main parts: Discussions on the unique context for urban apologetics so that you can better understand the cultural arguments against Christianity among the Black community. Detailed information on cults, religious groups, and ethnic identity groups that many urban evangelists encounter—such as the Nation of Islam, Kemetic spirituality, African mysticism, Hebrew Israelites, Black nationalism, and atheism. Specific tools for urban apologetics and community outreach. Ultimately, Urban Apologetics applies the gospel to black identity to show that Jesus is the only one who can restore it. This is an essential resource to equip those doing the work of ministry and apology in urban communities with the best available information.
New Wine, New Wineskins
Author: Dr. F. Douglas Powe JR.
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 142675616X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →God wants to do a new thing in the African American Church. Author, Douglas Powe suggests that the African American church, while once the bedrock of the community, is no longer on the radar for many. During the Civil Rights movement African American churches initiated and even shaped transformation for an entire country, well beyond their own walls. In this post-Civil Rights era the power of many African American churches remains mired in the assumptions and practices of the past, thereby making them invisible to their surrounding communities. New Wine, New Wineskins helps African American congregations understand and benefit from the cultural shifts we are now experiencing. Many African American churches once thought they were immune to the cultural shock waves in our streets and neighborhoods. They simple argued that they have always been all about participation and being relational; yet like many churches, their numbers continue to decline. African American churches must find a way to reclaim their missional orientation, while at the same time remaining true to their historical identity and witness of speaking truth to power. The worthy goals of justice and bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ in this time, requires new practices and fresh ideas—new wine. The old framework just won’t work any more. We need new wine skins.
Afro-Pentecostalism
Author: Amos Yong
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2011-05-16
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 081479730X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2006, the contemporary American Pentecostal movement celebrated its 100th birthday. Over that time, its African American sector has been markedly influential, not only vis-à-vis other branches of Pentecostalism but also throughout the Christian church. Black Christians have been integrally involved in every aspect of the Pentecostal movement since its inception and have made significant contributions to its founding as well as the evolution of Pentecostal/charismatic styles of worship, preaching, music, engagement of social issues, and theology. Yet despite its being one of the fastest growing segments of the Black Church, Afro-Pentecostalism has not received the kind of critical attention it deserves. Afro-Pentecostalism brings together fourteen interdisciplinary scholars to examine different facets of the movement, including its early history, issues of gender, relations with other black denominations, intersections with popular culture, and missionary activities, as well as the movement’s distinctive theology. Bolstered by editorial introductions to each section, the chapters reflect on the state of the movement, chart its trajectories, discuss pertinent issues, and anticipate future developments. Contributors: Estrelda Y. Alexander, Valerie C. Cooper, David D. Daniels III, Louis B. Gallien, Jr., Clarence E. Hardy III, Dale T. Irvin, Ogbu U. Kalu, Leonard Lovett, Cecil M. Robeck, Jr., Cheryl J. Sanders, Craig Scandrett-Leatherman, William C. Turner, Jr., Frederick L. Ware, and Amos Yong
African American Church Leadership
Author: Paul Cannings
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0825442737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Sports Evangelism
Author: Douglas Adrian Wilkins
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The number of African Americans attending traditional church services has severely decreased in the current era as compared to the attendance during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. The numbers are even more staggering when one compares the number of African-American men currently attending traditional churches. In today's cultural context, many men, young and old, are tired of the traditional styles of worship service that have been in practice since the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church by Richard Allen and the Free African Society in 1816. As times change, there needs to be a change in how we minister to people. Sports and ministry, when coupled, can be that change. While there are many sports ministry programs throughout the world, these organizations cater to youth or athletes playing in organized sports. These are superb organizations, but they lack one thing to make them effective for evangelizing to African-American men in various communities. That missing link is outreach. By convening a virtual focus group of African-American men, ranging in age, education and socioeconomic status, it was discovered that these man want to be loved and not judged. They want to go and participate in worship where they feel empowered and not preached to, or about. This empowerment, for this population, can come in the form of sports evangelism and will look like love, forgiveness, and hope. The church, following this new concept of evangelism, will be able to invite, and retain, African-American men in the body of Christ. God is ready to do a new thing in African-American communities, and that new thing is Sports Evangelism.
Reading While Black
Author: Esau McCaulley
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0830854878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition can help us connect with a rich faith history and address the urgent issues of our times. Demonstrating an ongoing conversation between the collective Black experience and the Bible, New Testament scholar Esau McCaulley shares a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation.
Evangelism Among African American Presbyterians
Author: Marsha Snulligan Haney
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, Disciples of Christ, and other predominantly European-centered Christian denominations of North America seek to respond as a faith community to the increasingly dynamic ethnic and cultural diversity within our society, this book offers a sobering yet valuable perspective. By understanding the ministry of Christian evangelism as a construct that speaks of the power of divine transformation (personal and communal) and the embrace of a way of life, this work argues for a multi-variant approach that values the philosophical aspects of cultural differences, which are effective and faithful models of Christian evangelism. An analysis of key missiological concepts, such as mission histories, ethno-theologies, worldview, culture, ethnic cohesion, and contextualization is appropriated to illuminate the theological voices and evangelical practices of a specific people, or ethnicity, shaped by a journey of spiritual faith. While the numerical significance of self-identified African-American Presbyterians may appear small, their synergistic encounter of human identity and religious faith, historical experience in the church, and the impact of their evangelical presence provide an excellent case study for discerning the twenty-first-century challenges of evangelism. This thorough study of history, theology, organizational structures, methods, and techniques will serve as a valuable tool in evaluating the impact of the faith journey of African-American Presbyterians and its challenges for today and the future.
