Becoming A People: Re-Membering Blackness in the imago Dei (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781737396109)

The God Who Delivers has spoken. He has declared our mattering. And His declaration is the re-membering of Blackness to the imago Dei.

However, we have to embrace our personhood, as defined by the God Who Delivers. To embrace our personhood...to lay claim to the declaration by the Almighty, is to pursue the promises of God made unto us.

The only way to remember Blackness in the imago Dei is for us, as Black people, to pursue the promises of the God Who Delivered our ancestors from slavery.

We have to utterly reject our personhood, as defined by white power - the god who fails to deliver...the god who only delivers when cajoled or coerced...the god who only delivers when it's politically expedient...and, the god who can always find justification for our abuse, murder and dismemberment.

Rather than pursuing the promises of this society that repeatedly fails us, we have to pursue the promises of the God Who Delivers.

But what are those promises

Do you know? Do you have a vision for what those promises might be? For what those promises must be?

How do you even go about seeing a vision for those promises? What clues have the Lord God left for us, that we might reconnect to His promises unto us, as Black people subject to bondage under white power?

These are the questions I aim to help you answer in, Becoming a People: Re-membering Blackness in the Imago Dei.

In this collection of sermons preached during Great Lent 2020, in preparation for the Christian Passover and while the world was adjusting to the beginnings of COVID lockdowns, the Lord led me to study the stories of Jacob, Joseph and the Israelites, as they struggled to embrace their identity, in the imago Dei.

How did these people, who had been tremendously wronged by those in authority over them, come to find and embrace their personhood? How did they find the "right stuff" to at long last lay hold the promised land and become a people, secure in themselves and their God?

I was amazed by what the Lord showed me in the foundational texts of Hebrew Identity, and how they apply to Black people in this age's manifestation of Egypt and Babylon. I am excited to share this book with you that you might reclaim the fullness of your Black identity in the imago Dei.