Brian Dukes

1727 days ago

Seeing that those speaking in tongues could still practice racism, he was convinced that tongues were not most important, but “the dissolution of racial barriers was the surest sign of the Spirit’s Pentecostal presence.” He cared not how many tongues people spoke. If you didn’t participate in this new world of love, “you have not the baptism of the Holy Spirit.”

To Shape A New World: William Seymour and Black Faith in the Drama of Civil Rights – Part 2

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Read Part 1 here. Jonathan Chism highlights this when he writes, “Many religious and Civil Rights scholars have ignored Black Holiness-Pentecostal involvements” in the freedom struggle, and instead have focused on the roles of Black Baptists and Methodists.