To Crush The Serpent
January, 1987
To Crush the SerpentWhy do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? --Psalms 2:1I was a young evangelist, preaching in Harlem and other black communities for about three years: Young means adolescent. I was 14 when I entered the pulpit and 17 when I left.Those were very crucial years, full of wonder, and one of the things I most wondered about was the fellowship of Christians in the United States of America.My father and I were both black ministers working exclusively in black chur...