RACE
RELATIONS

GOD is not asking blacks to be whites or whites to be blacks. He’s asking both to be biblical. If I say I am a black Christian and somebody else says that they’re a white Christian, what they’ve done is made black or white an adjective. The job of an adjective is to modify a noun.

If the word Christian is in the noun position and your race in the adjectival position, since the job of the adjective is to modify and explain the nature of the noun, that means you’ve always got to change the noun of your faith to reflect the adjective of your culture. However, the way it’s supposed to work is that your history, background, race, and culture are to be in the noun position. Your faith should always be in the adjectival position, so that you’re always adjusting the noun of your culture to the adjective of your faith.

In other words, you’re bringing who you are—your history, your background, and your culture—to look like the adjectival description of what you say you believe about God and Jesus Christ.742

Gal. 3:28; Rev. 14:6