"Faith is drowning in a torrent of God's love" - A. J. Swoboda
God want both our mind and hearts, our skills and our spontaneity. God wants to lead us into the rhythms of His Holy Spirit. This is the place where we find peace rather than anxiety. This is the place where we find forgiveness rather than nursing wounds. This is the place where we find unity rather than isolation and division.
God wants our faith to be black and white but too often it is only white. Why is it that black people worship God louder and more rhythmically than white people? Why do black people dance like there is a God and white people hardly dance at all, at least not in worship.
A. J. Swoboda powerfully says, "African American churches meet for three hours to be reminded that they're something. Anglos worship an hour because they have been telling themselves all week that they're everything and can only handle one short hour a week being reminded that they're nothing" (A Glorious Dark, p.75).
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