The Rev. Tony Evans of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas recently delivered a sermon on race in which he said that the cross of Christ is what unites Christians of all races.
The Christian Examiner reports that Evans's sermon quickly became
popular and was shared over social media. In it, Evans, a black pastor
of a predominantly black church, stated that the issue of racism could
have been solved years ago if preachers would preach biblical truth from
the pulpit.
“If you have mist in the the pulpit, you’ve got a fog in the pew…” said
Evans in the sermon. “If our pulpits were right we would have solved
this problem of racism a long time ago. Slavery would have been solved,
Jim Crow would have been solved, segregation--all of this would have
been solved.”
Evans went on to stress that in God’s Kingdom, every life matters. This
includes people of all races and colors, and also includes the unborn.
“God has a kingdom. It's made up of citizens ... some black, some
white, some red, yellow, Spanish backgrounds. His intention was never
that their individual uniqueness would cause them to lose sight of the
flag flying over them.
For example, the life of the unborn matters. And so there is this
emphasis on injustice in the womb. But that injustice in the womb must
be under the umbrella that all life matters. Black lives matter, as a
subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must
be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life
is created in the image of God," Evans continued.
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