The Journey: Forty Days of Promise

Learning Life Lessons from the Legacy of African American Christianity

Do you long to grow in your ability to relate across cultures?

Do you long for church community that’s truly a taste of eternity (Rev. 7:9-10) where we’ll worship together forever in unity and diversity?

Then join the journey! 

Join the Journey

Join me on a forty-day intercultural journey of promise.

I’ll be blogging during the forty days from Martin Luther King Day on January 18, 2010, to the end of Black History Month on February 28, 2009.

Our focus will be: The Journey: Forty Days of Promise—Learning Life Lessons from the Legacy of African American Christianity.

I know, technically, that’s forty-two days. February 27 and 28 will be days of reflection on the previous forty-day journey.

The Big Idea

Each day we’ll enjoy a stirring narrative from the heroes and heroines of Black Church history.

Then we’ll ponder applications of this remarkable legacy to all of our lives today—regardless of our ethnicity, nationality, race, or cultural background.

Every post will include discussion questions so that in your family and your church you can ponder the implications for your lives and ministries.

Bonus for Joining the Journey

As an added bonus, I’ll select five people who commented the most during these 40 (42) days to receive an e-copy of the entire Forty Day Adventure.

Your Head Start on Our Journey of Promise

The Journey is your appetizer. If you’d like the full course meal, go here to learn about, read a sample chapter from, and purchase your autographed copy of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction.

Join the Conversation

1. What does the Church today need to do to reflect the multi-ethnic diversity commanded (Col. 3:10) and illustrated (Rev. 7:9-10) in Scripture?

2. What are some of the reasons that Sunday morning remains the most segregated hour in America?   

Beyond the Suffering