So, I keep a toe in the " Evangelical World" and try to keep up with what they are thinking concerning ' Current Issues & Events' as the UIL would call them.
It seems there is a mega-church pastor who got into trouble for using the term, " White Blessing" because of being here in America....And Black folks are given that blessing because they were brought here as slaves back before 1861.
The rationalization being that the Blacks would have never " Found Christ." ( Never understood that phrase, I never knew he was ever lost? A better term would be "Discovered.")
Another rationalization to the " White Blessing" is that Christ somehow blessed America above all others.
Years ago, when I was in seminary in Fort Worth, the place was full of people from Nigeria, Kenya, Western Africa in general.....A number of these guys became disgusted with what is going on in America, they went home and went to seminaries in Africa.
Heck, the Anglican( Episcopal) Churches in Nigeria and Kenya are so convinced America has lost its' way, they are sending missionaries to America.
Come on, the idea that God loves America so much he is blessing us more than other nations?
Among the oldest Christians in the world are in Ethiopia. Yes, in Africa.
Travel folks. They're doing pretty well other places that don't know who or what the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob is and they really do not care.
It is again vanity to think God loves you more because you're an " American." Every country who thought they were " On Top" thought the same way about God."
I am reminded of Isaiah 40 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket......All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity
"And vanity"
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