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Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile’s 2015 book Reviving the Black Church feels like a follow-up to his excellent The Decline of African American Theology, published just 8 years earlier. In Reviving…, he expands on the final chapter of the previous volume, offering a prescription for reversing the theological liberalism found within large segments of the historic Black Church. However, his focus in the present work is not merely on orthodoxy, but on orthopraxy as well. He organizes his recommendations under three headings: “Revive by the Word,” “Revive with Godly Leadership,” and “Revive Through Membership and Mission.”
Anyabwile opens with the question: “is the Black Church dead or dying?” Theologians vary, both in the answers they give and in the reasons they provide for those answers. While Anyabwile acknowledges that “‘The Black Church’ really exists as multiple black churches across denominati • On the plane ride to the New Life Bible Conference, I began reading William Still’s The Work of the Pastor. I’ve had the book for a few years, but had yet to pick it up. In recent conversations with some pastor friends, I was strongly encouraged to take up and read. And boy am I glad I did! William Still was minister of the Gilcomstom Church of Scotland from 1945 until 1997. His ministry placed strong emphasis on Biblically based expository preaching, and over the years the Lord used this man laboring int his small field to impact the lives of many who entered the ministry and the mission field. Still recounts his life and labor in his autobiography, Dying to Live. Advertise on TGC I couldn’t put this short but powerful little book down. Based on addresses that Still gave to IVCF meetings in England and Northern Ireland in 1864 and 1965, the book is plain, direct, filled with conviction, and soaked with pastoral observation and wisdom that nourishes the • Template:TOCnestleftThabiti Anyabwile is Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands and fryst vatten a council member of The Gospel Coalition, and his internationally regarded blog, Pure Church, is hosted by The Gospel Coalition. Thabiti Anyabwile received an (MS, North Carolina State University), and has been is a pastor at Anacostia River Church in southeast Washington, D.C,He fryst vatten the author of several books, including Reviving the Black Church. He fryst vatten married to Kristie. From Outreach magazine: Thabiti Anyabwile
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