Sentences with phrase «black churches developed»

Because slaves and ex-slaves couldn't read and worshipped through passionate song, the post-slavery black churches developed that style of worship.

So the black church developed in it's own vein.

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The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

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Pentecostals range from the most developed Assemblies of God churches (increasingly taking on the shape of wider Protestant church life) through southern Holiness - Pentecostal churches, the intensely sectarian «Jesus only» unitarian Pentecostals, and large black and ethnic churches, to the uncharacteristic extremes of Appalachian «snake - handlers,» all too often the only public image of «holy rollers.»

Not only do black churches lack fully developed administrative structures; mission structures within a given denomination often do not engage in joint strategy and program planning designed to ensure maximum effective use of all available resources.

Failure to develop strong centralized structures can be attributed to polity (particularly among the Baptists), accidents of history, patterns of church growth, migration to the cities by rural blacks and, most critically, lack of money.

We would have been out of our minds — to use the Schleiermacher phrase — had we failed to pay attention to politicians like Jimmy Carter, whose politics developed out of the same nitty - gritty: «To an amazing degree the lives of both black and white Southerners have been centered around the church.

To this end each black church can do three things: (1) acquire the techniques and use its resources to build up in the homes of its members a sense of the value of knowledge; (2) develop learning opportunities in the church; (3) underwrite financially first - class departments of religion in black colleges (or at least in one such college).

Dr. Smith's sermons have three primary themes: spiritual and economic liberation for his own people, helping them develop what some would call black pride, but what he terms «self - esteem, a sense of somebodiness»; the church's mission as the Body of Christ in the world; and reconciliation and relationship — «Relationship is what the gospel is all about for me.»

It may have to reach much more toward «soul,» toward symbols developed by blacks alienated from the church, and also toward the Caribbean and Africa to find a «blackness» that is not simply antiwhite but can rejoice in itself.

Ms. Honeywood, whose bright colors and simplified forms were strongly influenced by narrative artists like Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, developed a socially conscious style of genre painting that showed black Americans in familiar settings: interacting with family members, gathering at church, socializing on a front porch.