The Soul Of The Black Church

Finally, this passage ends with a promise. The promise is made to individuals. “To Him that overcometh.” (Revelations 2:7 KJV) God knows the Soul of the Black Church is made up of the Souls of Black Folk and makes the promise to such folk. The promise is a promise of Return, Restoration and Reward. The promise is a promise of a return to Eden, a restoration to former position, and the reward of eternal life. This is meant both in the eternal sense of making it to heaven, but also in the sense of seeing the effects of the curse rolled back in our own lives though walking in Jesus’ redeeming love. Paradise: originally, this word meant "a garden of delight;" eventually, it came to mean the place where God lives where God is, that is paradise!

In the words of one of the Black Church sons, Martin Luther King, Jr. “We shall overcome, because God is on our side” . Even when Technology threatening to Digitally Divide the haves from the have-nots, The Black Church Shall Overcome. Even with the TAAS Test retaining the youth of the Black Community, The Black Church Shall Overcome. Even with Affirmative Action receiving Death Threats, The Black Church Shall Overcome. Racial Profiling, Disproportional Unemployment, The unjust Criminal Justice System, Wars and Rumors of War, shall not succeed in hold us down, The Black Church shall overcome, deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome. The Black Church shall overcome because the God of the Universe will deliver you out of financial and chemical bondage. The Black Church shall Overcome because the promises of God are sure, you shall reap what you sow.

"When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,

When sorrows like sea billows roll;

Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,

It is well, it is well, with my soul."

One Bright Morning the Black Church will stand on God’s celestial shores, and say to her children, we made it. There in paradise we The Black Church shall be with God, as the Bride of Jesus Christ Our Lord

Amen