We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.
The black church will accept anybody.
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.
Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.
I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.