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What Type of Church Will We Build?
A constant thread running throughout the story of the first church in the book of Acts is courage. Over and over again the first disciples faced a future they couldn’t see and took risks as if they had nothing to lose. In fact, they displayed the kind of courage many would call foolish, even crazy. Still, it’s clear in the story of the first church that gospel community convinced that Jesus’ message can change the world will act with courage.
Why? Why did they face an unknown future by building a church with such radical qualities?
They did it because they believed the gospel message could change the world.
Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Negro National Anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery which evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom of the "promised land." After its first recitation in 1900, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was communally sung within Black communities, while the NAACP began to promote the hymn as a "Negro national anthem" in 1917. It has been featured in 42 different Christian hymnals, and it has also been performed by various African American singers and musicians.
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