Sentences with phrase «black preachers need»

Churches that invite black people and people of color into their «multicultural» worship spaces, but implicitly ask black singers to leave gospel music behind, ask black musicians to leave their hammond B - 3 behind or suggest that black preachers need to leave the fire of their «hoop» or preaching passion behind is a sunken - place theology.

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The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

To be effective, a modern minister needs to have moved beyond holding stereotypical views of the «mainline Protestant,» the «Catholic priest» and the «black preacher.»

One need only turn on the television to watch Machine Gun Preacher for a similar portrayal of a white character who travels to «Africa» to «save the children» against the backdrop of black - on - black slaughter, rape and torture which is never historically contextualised (see The Guardian's Catherine Shoard's critique of the white criminal - turned - saviour character of Sam in Machine Gun Preacher as «half saint, half psychopath»).