Black to the Faith
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- Written by Marcus Yoars
A few weeks ago the Barna Group released a report on the spiritual shift that's occurred among Hispanic Americans in the last 15 years. This week the focus turned to African-Americans, who remain the most faith-oriented ethnic group in the United States.
In response to nine statements regarding various faith fundamentals, blacks scored the highest among the four predominant groups in all but one—which was also the lone question for which they answered similarly to the national average. A whopping 85 percent—22 percent higher than white respondents—stated that the single most important purpose in life is to "love God with all your heart, mind, strength and soul."
African-Americans were the leading group to believe in the Bible's inerrancy, with 66 percent agreeing that it is completely accurate in all its teaching (20 percent higher than whites). Despite this, however, blacks also led the way in claiming that Jesus sinned while on earth (54 percent) and that Satan is merely a symbol of evil (46 percent).
When compared to the three other ethnic groups—whites, Hispanics and Asians—blacks proved to be the most likely to engage in church-related activities during the week, including praying and reading the Bible. And according to the Barna study, they are even more spiritually minded today than they were 15 years ago, with most of the spiritual measures the research group uses having increased significantly.
"While the beliefs and behaviors of America's white population have changed little since the early 1990s, the new research underscored that the faith of African-Americans is dynamic, generally moving in a direction that is more aligned with conservative biblical teachings," the report stated. [barna.org, 7/27/09]
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I believe that God allowed Obama to come to office just to see just wha type of issues we Christians are truly dealing with. Are we racist; rebellious; hateful; envious; hypocrites? What feelings come up when his name is mentioned? No you may not be racist, but you may be just like Korah and causing other people to rise up against the leader. Believe it or not, we are subjected to his authority because God has given it to him. so when we speak against him, we speak against God! Would you accept someone talking ill about your pastor? Then why speak down on our president. It was the other way when Bush was in office. Alot of the black churches mummered and complained. They were just as wrong as what some of us are doing today.
I believe african americans are conservative minded in church, but that's about it. They are deceived and misled as they vote as a bloc for the democrat party. When they voted for Obama because of his race, they voted for the abortion agenda, the homosexual agenda, the ACLU agenda to remove God from our society, the liberal socialist agenda,...and the list goes on. Jesse Jackson keeps the "herd" in the democrat party "corral". The black church has moral values in the church setting, but not in the voting booth.
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and not just hearers!!" We as are are too proud to be Black first....GOD says we should be right biblically first and only Black if it lines up with HIS WORD. We are continually being duped by false teachers (mega-stars a.k.a hirelings) tricking the so-called very elect. Jesus warned us are we listening and reading the WORD?????
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