![]() ![]() ![]() This is powerful and undercuts the notion that slavery could endure in a consistent Christian nation. The faithful servant will, of course, be found asking day by day, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” He should always remember that he will most glorify God by doing promptly, diligently, and faithfully what God wants him to do. This means that they do not want to be their own, but really desire to belong now and forever to Christ that they are glad to take him for their Lord and Master, and are ready to spend and be spent in his service. The former enslaved man does not hesitate to say: We now come to ask what his people are to do day by day so long as they live in this world. While his particular expression of Christianity is not one I share, there was much to learn from Boothe both as an American Christian and as a mere Christian!īoothe turns from God, creation, and redemption: ![]() He often will present an idea, objections, and then respond. Torrey for clarity and demonstrates a vital root to the growth of traditional, Bible centered forms of Protestantism as opposed to theological liberalism coming into favor in many seminaries.Ĭombining concision and passion is hard to do, but Boothe does this while using an apologetic style in most sections that is very appealing. As a work of theology, a forerunner to the best of Evangelical thought, it rivals R.A. His Plain Theology for Plain People is directed at the hundreds of thousands of African-Americans looking for an education in the Christian faith. ![]()
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