God’s Church Is Already Multi-Ethnic
My Journey Back to the Black Church
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I had never considered attending a white church until I had been a Christian for nearly forty years. It happened after I had retired. During my retirement, I began spending much of my time really digging deeper into the Bible. I was reading a lot and listening to sermons by John Piper, John MacArthur, Albert N. Martin, Paul Washer, and others. I was learning that the teachings in these sermons and readings were affirming the things I had been discovering in my own Bible reading. In fact, although the black Baptist churches I attended were in no way heretical, and in fact did preach and teach the Bible, I found myself yearning for more. I needed more than “we believe the Bible”. I needed to hear what we believed the Bible teaches. I needed to hear what I had been learning being affirmed. In no way do I regret my beginnings in the black church. God saved me in the black church. I learned that God was the God of all in the black church. I learned that I needed a savior because I was a sinner, and that Savior was Christ in the black church. I learned that Jesus Christ, the Savior, died on the cross for my sins in the black church. However, I did not grow in understanding God’s plan of redemption, or the golden chain of redemption found in Romans 8:28-30.
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My journey back to the black church happened once I realized that God’s church is already multi-ethnic. I moved from the black church during a time that I was hungry for deeper teaching and expositional preaching, not yet having realized that God has people everywhere in every culture, teaching his unadulterated word, including in the black church. However, I found the deeper teaching I had been longing for at a Reformed Baptist Church that happened to be predominantly comprised of my white brothers and sisters. My new church actually had people from almost every nation, and I was convinced that this was how it was supposed to be, that is, until 2020, the year of COVID-19, the presidential election of Joe Biden, and the murder of George Floyd. Our very different responses to these events helped expose not only our cultural differences but also the vast differences in our perspectives on social and political issues, which left me feeling as if I were trying to wear a coat that didn’t fit.
About the Author
Barbara Fisher has been a Christian for 50+ years. She is a songwriter and a blogger. She is an Adult Sunday School teacher and has led small group Bible studies for women in her home. She loves serving in her church. She is married to Robert and has two adult children, Melanie and James, as well as seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.