The Liberating Gospel

Well this is a racially charged Easter Sunday. Here’s a video that won’t let me remote link with another interview with Dr. A.G. Miller. The message sets quite an example. Just good guys and bad guys, just black and white.


"Slaves didn't get treated any different than free people, and they all had a say in how this community was going to emerge and evolve. That was the power of Christianity that shook the Roman empire," Miller said.

"They began to exegete those passages in the Gospel that talked about the liberating power of the Gospel and then began to exegete out those passages that don't make much sense to them and the way the turned the Gospel text into their own experience… gravitate quickly to Moses. "



"Slaves flocked to this movement, why?

There's this notion of brotherhood, this notion of fellowship that drew people together. I think they picked up on all of that and began to incorporate that into their lives. Far more than they incorporated those other things. Those things had to be forced upon them by their white slave masters, but if you left them to their own devices, they picked up other stuff in the Gospel that they found gave them hope. That gave them a vision for the future, that gave them vision for freedom that understood God as a God of liberation "