Black churches are paid money to espouse and encourage blacks to vote the democrats’ agenda. Then there is a matter of speaking politics from the pulpit and losing tax exempt status. Churches like the money. Legally and illegally
>> Then there is a matter of speaking politics from the pulpit and losing tax exempt status.
...which has actually happened exactly NEVER. Not on the left nor on the right.
But, in the words of Pastor Rick Joyner (from memory, not a word for word quote): “Christians all over the world are being KILLED for speaking the truth of the Word and of Christ. And you’re worried about your TAX EXEMPT STATUS??!?”
In our comfortable, materialistic society the gravitational forces of Baal and the culture are sadly strong enough to pull many away from the Word. Jesus said it would happen, and so it has, many times over the millenia.
I agree to some of that. But I'm seeing a sea change among black churches here in Alabama. More and more you see black churches with a Sav-A-Life house (pro-life place for pregnant moms). Also I have more blacks come to me telling me that George Floyd ain't their hero, that they're Christian first and black second.
I go to a majority black church set up by whites but in a black neighborhood. Like many majority white churches in my area, we've had a lot of blacks join because they were tired of the regular blame-the-whitey message from the black pulpits. They wanted their families to be part of a love-God and love-others type church. This grassroots movement of real Christianity blacks has grown enough that the emptying black churches have taken notice and many of them have cleaned up their act. I'm cautiously optimistic that we're seeing a spiritual awakening among blacks like their ancestors had during segregation and their ancestors had during slavery.
I tell them all the time that this generation is the one time black America doesn't have to wait on white America to also have a spiritual awakening (so that whites would abolish slavery and later whites end segregation). This time the spiritual awakening among blacks is enough to get what they need (to end all the effects hedonism does to black families).