The Gospel of Race

Everything is about injustice

This past Tuesday, Raphael Warnock defeated Herschel Walker to retain his position as a senator from Georgia. 

During this race and throughout his time as senator, a number of Christians are dumbfounded by the positions that Warnock has taken.  Particularly because he is a pastor.

They are rightfully confused as to why a man who proclaims to be an under-shepherd of Christ would have positions that are anathema to Biblical Truth.  

Honestly, that question was on my mind as well.  How can a pastor be pro-choice?  How can a pastor advocate for outright sin and affirm it?

As I dug deeper into Warnock and his background, I began to understand why.

The reason is that Warnock and those like him are not preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  At least not the gospel that Christ himself and the Apostles preached.

Instead of preaching about the Kingdom of Heaven and the spiritual delivery that Christ attained for us by his death, burial, and resurrection, Warnock and those like him preach a gospel of race.  Or a social gospel.

This gospel views what Jesus accomplished for us through the lens of Marxism.  

It’s marxism because they see the oppression as between groups of people (whiteness vs blackness).

However, they do not see the oppression of the devil on all of mankind.  

Rather, the oppression they see is the “systemic racism” that has held black people in bondage.  

In the eyes of the black liberation theology crowd, the freedom that Christ provided is seen through the lens of social, political, and economic injustice.

The key verses that they utilize to justify their theology is Micah 6:8 and Luke 4:16-19.

As believers, we understand that God is for righteousness and justice.

Yet, the difference is black liberation adherents are not using the authority given to us through God and the empowering of the Holy Spirit to combat the injustices we face.

No, they want to compel the government to correct the injustices.  It’s through government that the injustices will be wronged.

In their eyes it was the government that created the injustices, therefore it is the government that should correct them.

It’s a secular, humanistic, and carnal application of the Word of God.  

James Cone, the father of black liberation theology is quoted as saying

“a rational study of the being of God in the world in light of the existential situation of an oppressed community, relating the forces of liberation to the essence of the Gospel, which is Jesus Christ”

Black Liberation Theology mixes the gospel with civil rights to produce a concoction that elevates race above everything.

How does this apply to Raphael Warnock and his views?

He is an adherent of black liberation theology because he is the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  That church was the cornerstone for black liberation theology.

Warnock doesn’t possess a biblical worldview.  His worldview is tinted.  

He is preaching another gospel.  

That gospel is ok with the murder of innocent children or allowing drag queen story hour.  Because those are marginalized and oppressed groups.  Therefore, they must be free to express themselves because of the injustices they have endured.

It’s a never-ending quest to rid the world of systemic injustice.  Because there is still “injustice” Christ did not finish the work.

Yet, I beg to differ.  

Christ did finish the work of delivering us from the oppression of the devil.

Anyone in Christ is not in oppression, but is liberated.  

We must stand fast in the liberty through which Christ has made us free.  

Bondage is now a choice.  One that I choose to reject.