Sunday.....Christianity.....Glory Road

While traveling this past weekend, two black men came into the lobby of the inn. One immediately went to a house computer and while typing in a URL address turned to his friend and said something about a story on Obama that he heard about and had to read. I've mentioned before that the pride on the faces of Black Americans over the ascendancy of Barack Obama is often visibly evident. Not all Blacks feel this way and one would have to go no further than the writings of Thomas Sowell, who I have highlighted often, to see that the extreme disagreements with our socialist president are not race oriented. The fact remains, as bad as his agenda is, the love in the children's faces is a hard thing to overlook, but overlook it we have to, for their futures are in jeopardy, as are all Americans, and the momentary benefit of the reward of the looks on their faces has to be looked at as just that...momentary. Black Americans voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama in 2008. The true Black heroes that have stood up, the Sowell's, the Clarence Thomases, the J. C. Watts and many others, had immediately been ridiculed by the extreme liberal element of the Democratic party. The question has to be asked and explored, on how the Black churches of America were taken in. Barack Obama's religious belief is evident in what it is not. Whether it is comments he made, the church he went to or the agenda he pursues, it is anything but the Person, the redemptive work, the glory and the Gospel of Christ that is put forth. The American church has been Arminian for well over a hundred years. The glorious truths it proclaims have been dampened by the weaknesses in Arminianism which revolve around doctrinal truths that are meant to strengthen the church. The Black church in America is part and parcel of the overall church that has, politically, personally and theologically, been assimilated into the mainstream American culture. That American church, which includes the Black churches, needs the opportunity at least, to know the history of Christian doctrine from the beginning, the changes that came about and why they came about, and how those doctrinal changes fare against the sovereignty of God proclaimed during the Reformation in strengthening the church and the nation's citizenry. On that same trip, I visited a tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia where, much like today's Tea Parties,  a rebellion grew against the Stamp Act. We know the lasting effect that Martin Luther's tacking his 95 five theses on the church door at the castle of Wittenburg had, and on a trip to Cambridge University in 2001, we stood on the site where the White Horse Inn operated where spirited conversations were said to have brought about the Reformation in England. We need similar conversations today, similar debates. We need a thesis tacked up that proclaims the abuses of governments against the God who caused those governments to rise and will bring them down just  as readily. There is a Christian organization that has chosen the name of that tavern in Cambridge, The White Horse Inn (http://www.whitehorseinn.org/) and its motto is Know what you believe and why you believe it. Available for purchase on that web site right now is a book Glory Road, The Journey of Ten African-Americans into Reformed Christianity, that our Black brothers and sisters in Christ should read.  The icon for that book from Amazon is below. In fact, any ethnic group, any Christian should consider the testimonies of the ten Christian men given in this book.