#BlackHistoryMonth
Posted on Friday, February 13, 2015 by
“With your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.” – Revelation 5:9
This month is Black History Month and in seeing #BlackHistoryMonth coming across my social feeds lately, I had some thoughts...
The conversion of the Ethiopian Eunuch in the Book of Acts came years before Paul’s first missionary trip into Europe. Clement, Origen, Tertullian, and Athanasius, all from Africa, are widely recognized as fathers of the early church. Christianity quickly became the dominant religion of Northern Africa and by the year 300, Egypt had more than a million Christians. The Egyptian Coptic Church in the Sudan and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church still exist today.
Though persecuted, their presence is testimony to the story of Christianity in Africa.
The assertion that Christianity is a religion for white people by white people is neither God’s heart, historically accurate nor currently true. The first African Christians were not American slaves. The Christian heritage in Africa goes all the way back to the days of the Bible itself.
Our God truly loves people from every tribe and tongue and nation.
- Myron
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