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Apostolic Church

Church History. Ca. 30AD. 590 AD. 1517 AD. Ancient Church History. Medieval Church History. Modern Church History. Reformation & Counter Reformation. Apostolic Church. The First Medieval Pope. The Rise of the Holy Rom Emp. Apostolic Fathers. Rationalism, Revivalism,

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Apostolic Church

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  1. Church History Ca. 30AD 590 AD 1517 AD Ancient Church History Medieval Church History Modern Church History Reformation & Counter Reformation Apostolic Church The First Medieval Pope The Rise of the Holy Rom Emp Apostolic Fathers Rationalism, Revivalism, & Denominationalism The Crusades Church Councils Revivalism, Missions, & Modernism Golden Age of Church Fathers The Papacy in Decline The Pre-Reformers ?

  2. “Rise Up & Shout”The Black Church in America CHURCH HISTORY IILesson 30

  3. I. Slavery in America • Coming of the slaves • 1619 Dutch ship at Jamestown OPPOSITION TO SLAVERY Samuel Sewell The Selling of Joseph John Wolman and the Society of Friends Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (Mt. 7:14) B. EARLY MINISTRY AMONG SLAVES John Elliot Cotton Mather C. OPPOSITION TO EVANGELISM 1. No soul; less than human 2. Awkward to have slave as brother 3. Couldn’t work on Sabbath! 4. “Free in Christ” equals “free man”

  4. D. CONVERSION OF THE SLAVES 1. First Great Awakening “Nearly 50 Negroes came to give me thanks for what God had done to their souls” Samuel Davies George Whitefield “He prayed that grace in ev’ry heart might dwell, He longed to see America excell: Take him, ye Africans, he longs for you, ‘Impartial Savior’ is his title due; Washed in the fountain of redeeming blood, You shall be sons, and kings, and priests to God.” Phillis Wheatley

  5. “slaves were given the resources for constructing their own slave religion in evangelical terms that eventually led to the creation of an autonomous black church” (Stout, The Divine Dramatist, 218) Preaching Spirituals Carter Woodson “The History of the Black Church” Late 18th and early 19th centuries “The Dawn of a New Day” Methodist: 1783 (3,200) 1819 (32,000) Baptists: 1790 (14,000) 1817 (40,000+) How did this happen?

  6. II. White Missions to Blacks Charles C. Jones “The Apostle to the Negro Slaves” “The religious instruction of our servants is a duty. Any man with a conscience may be made to feel it. It can be discharged…it must be discharged” (emphasis author)

  7. John Girardeau (1825-1898) Zion Presbyterian Church How do we sum up our views of the white Southern preacher?

  8. III. The Invisible Institution ‘the secret black church in the South’ “White fo’ks have deir servic in de mornin’, an’ de (negroes) have deirs in de evenin’, a’ter dey clean up, wash de dishes, an’ look a’ter everything… .Ya’ see (negroes), lack (like) ta shout a whole lot, an’ wid de white fo’ks al’round ‘em, dey couldn’t shout jes’ lack dey want to” Sarah Fitzpatrick, Alabama slave Private “hush meetings” Albert Raboteau Public camp meetings Greatest gift: Spirituals

  9. IV. Black Baptist Churches in the South George Liele (c. 1750-1825/28) Silver Bluff, SC 1773/74 First African American Baptist Church, Savannah 1778

  10. Savannah First African Baptist Church 1783 Jamaica Ethiopian Baptist Church

  11. Andrew Bryan (1737-1812)

  12. John C Jasper (1812-1901)

  13. V. Methodist/Richard Allen (1760-1831) Bethel M. E. Church, 1794 1815 – African Methodist Episcopal Church

  14. Daniel Payne

  15. Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833)

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