I haven’t been posting lately, but this past year I buckled down and made myself complete a book I began four years ago. I started this year with just 5,333 words, and a long way to go. While I was aiming for 60,000 words, I managed to say what I needed to say in 34,000.

So, what did I have to say? I wanted to share my church search journey. My journey back to the black church happened once I realized, through an epiphany, that God’s church is already multi-ethnic. I moved from the black church during a time that I was hungry for deeper teaching and expositional preaching, not yet having realized that God has people everywhere in every culture, teaching his unadulterated word, including in the black church. However, I found the deeper teaching that I had been longing for at a Reformed Baptist church that happened to be predominantly comprised of my white brothers and sisters. My new church actually had people from almost every nation, and I was convinced that this was how it was supposed to be, that is, until 2020, the year of COVID-19, the presidential election of Joe Biden, and the murder of George Floyd. Our very different responses to these events helped expose not only our cultural differences but also the vast differences in our perspectives on social and political issues, which left me feeling as if I were trying to wear a coat that didn’t fit.

The epiphany I had is also the title of my book: God’s Church Is Already Multi-Ethnic: My Journey Back to the Black Church. I would love for you to check it out and follow back here with your thoughts!

You can purchase online at Amazon, order directly from my publishing company, Archway Publishing, at the online bookstore: https://www.archwaypublishing.com/en/bookstore, or purchase at Barnes & Noble. If it isn’t in stock, they will order it for you. It is available in paperback, hardcover, and e-book formats. Locally, I will have book signings.

Remember, please follow back here with your thoughts!