[Windflier]

It looks like even “black churches” are getting spiritually hijacked. Serious missionaries don’t let buggered churches stop them, however.

There's always hope. We may yet see a new breed of young black preachers bring back the timeless lessons that once helped lift black people from misery.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, treating God as real, always is consequential.

It happens in white churches too; the gospel all too easily morphs into a bunch of human centered feelgood philosophy. And then God can use the resulting mess to alert them to the need to get serious again, and sometimes that works.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And people sometimes talk about a Protestant work ethic but really it’s a Christian one.

To follow in God’s footsteps means being willing to carry out work. Making widgets tends to beat out making trouble for good consequences.