Category Archives: Reviving the Black Church

Subtitle: A Call to Reclaim a Sacred institution

I think Thabiti is a very wise man. And I expect, at the end of the day, that the prescription for the Black Church is not different from that for the whole church in this country.

Lucidity…not style…

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Lucidity becomes the lingua franca of preaching and must become the measure of the sermon, not style. Anyabwile, RtBC, 59

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Mind meets coal…

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

The expositor is the man who stands with a lump of coal in his hand, hammering that dark resistant rock with the hammer of his mind until it reveals the diamond buried inside. Thabiti Anyabwile, RtBC, 42

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Dying an ignoble death…

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Where the Bible is not believed, and where the preaching does not manifest a belief in the Bible, the preaching itself dies an ignoble death. And if the pulpit dies, the pew won’t be far in joining it. Thabibi Anyabwile, … Continue reading →

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Gospel gossip…

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

We might say that a church that centers the Bible in its congregational life will be filled with people who gossip the gospel. Thabiti Anyabwile, RtBC, 30

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