Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, April 23, 2018
REDEEMING WORSHIP
OUR WORSHIP OF GOD IS OUR SECRET TO REDEMPTION
Once upon a time worshiping God was an act of insurgency for enslaved African people in America. And greatly feared by godless men and women, unless a safe white man was leading worship. So, slaves took to the deep forests for their own secret, sacred fellowship, under kettles to suppress sound. Here they could worship God in peace, in the own way, free of coercion, condemnation, brainwashing, soul-sapping servitude. Worshiping God is still the essential ingredient in our freedom quest, and will ever be, because we are God's chosen people, God's first people on Earth, from whom all others descended. This is that sacred secret knowledge that too few of us suspect.