A Burning House (Brandon Washington)
American Evangelicalism is ablaze. Doctrinal identity unites black and white evangelicals, but divisions along ethnic and cultural lines have long tarnished the movement's witness. With desegregation on the horizon, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house.” As with the country, if we hope to fully integrate the American Evangelical church, we must do so as firefighters.
In A Burning House, Brandon Washington, lead pastor of Embassy Christian Bible Church in Denver, CO, challenges American Evangelicalism to embrace its historical commitment to orthodoxy and orthopraxy. Only then can it become a holy witness to humanity and embody shalom—peace, justice, wholeness—in the world. These are the inevitable fruits of espousing and preaching a comprehensive gospel message.
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A Burning House: Session 1 - Fraternal Twins but Aloof Strangers
There is no theological distinction between Black and White Christians - they have a common orthodoxy. But they have a different orthopraxy.
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A Burning House: Session 2 - The Evangelical Markers
Evangelicalism is a movement, a work, and a kingdom people.
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A Burning House: Session 3 - History Haunts the Present
Our past is present in our history. Before we evaluate a history, we must evaluate our hermeneutic.
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A Burning House: Session 4 - The Gestation Period and a Seminal Ideology
Our present ideology can be linked back to the "Age of Discovery," when European nations were exploring the New World.
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A Burning House: Session 5 - Colonialism and Slavery
Look back at the historical result of a supremacy ideology, which was colonialism and slavery. Today, supremacy ideology caused other forms of oppression and marginalization.
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A Burning House: Session 6 - Reason over Theology
In the Modernity movement, reason replaced theology as the means by which leaders came to conclusions regarding ethics.
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A Burning House: Session 7 - Champions, Monsters, or Both?
In some cases, the lives our heroes lived did not reflect the theology they espoused.
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A Burning House: Session 8 - Are We Hitched to a Sick Horse?
Evangelicalism has embraced political parties, or tribalism, to confront brokenness in the world.
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A Burning House: Session 9 - Do We Have a Whole Gospel?
Ephesians 2:1-22 gives us the whole gospel: through grace we have a vertical reconciliation with God, and a horizontal conciliation with humanity.
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A Burning House: Session 10 - Is Christianity a White Man's Religion?
The myth that Christianity is a white man's religion was generated by Black leaders of cults intent on turning people away from the Christian faith. Among the many contradictions to this belief is the fact that the Ethiopian church is one of the oldest Christian movements.
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A Burning House: Session 11 - Are There Examples of Ortho-Balance?
Examples are given of leaders who balanced orthodoxy (right beliefs) with orthopraxy (right practice) and orthopathy (right feelings).
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A Burning House: Session 12 - Is Right Belief Enough?
We need receptive ears to listen to people on the other side of the ethnic rift in the church, and commit to hearing their concerns regarding evangelical abdication of justice in the world.