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    Where Are All the Brothers?: Straight Answers to Men's Questions about the Church
    Where Are All the Brothers?: Straight Answers to Men's Questions about the Church
    Where Are All the Brothers?: Straight Answers to Men's Questions about the Church
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    Where Are All the Brothers?: Straight Answers to Men's Questions about the Church

    By Eric C. Redmond

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    In this unique book, Pastor Eric Redmond confronts the important question of "Where are the black men in the African-American church?" with a candid approach that combines wisdom with a conversational tone.
    Instead of side-stepping issues, Redmond converses with readers about some of their reasons for not going to church-the church seems geared toward women, the preacher is just an ordinary man, Islam appears to offer more for the black man, organized religion is not necessary, churches are just after your money-and approaches their skepticism with respect but also with corrective truth. On these and other topics, Where Are All the Brothers? speaks about the things that men think about in private or discuss at the barbershop when it comes to church and religion, challenging them to reexamine their long-held assumptions.
    Redmond, who has used this material in a variety of settings with great success, also gives eight things to look for when considering a good church so that readers can find a healthy, biblical church home. And it's all in this unintimidating book that can easily be read in ten minutes a day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateMay 9, 2008
    ISBN9781433521461
    Where Are All the Brothers?: Straight Answers to Men's Questions about the Church
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    Eric C. Redmond

    Eric C. Redmond (PhD, Capital Seminary and Graduate School) is professor of Bible at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois, and associate pastor of preaching and teaching at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, Illinois. He is a teaching fellow for the C. S. Lewis Institute in Chicago and a fellow of the St. Augustine cohort of the Center for Pastor Theologians. He previously served on the council of the Gospel Coalition and as the senior pastor of two churches. Eric and his wife, Pamela, live in Winfield, Illinois, and they have five adult children.

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      Where Are All the Brothers? - Eric C. Redmond

      With a trained head and a tender heart the author enters the private domain of the reader just as a physician enters the examining room of the patient. He responds to the disturbing questions by giving biblical and practical prescriptions for holistic help and healing. Women also would be better equipped in understanding and encouraging the men in their lives. Make an appointment! Follow the instructions! Expect to live a vibrant life in Christ!

      — Sheila M. Bailey, international Bible teacher; conference speaker

      Pastor and denominational leader Eric Redmond has tackled well a very tough subject in the African-American community and black church. When some congregations are approaching 80 percent female active involvement, many are saying that black men have already left the church. The question that remains for many is, how can they brought back? How can the church change without watering down the gospel to be relevant in the twenty-first century?

      — T. Vaughn Walker, Senior Pastor, First Gethsemane Baptist Church, Louisville

      Here is straight talk, plain talk, direct talk, great talk for men who want to please God with their lives.

      — James W. Sire, author, The Universe Next Door and Praying the Prayers of Jesus

      Strongly apologetic, candidly polemic, and soundly catechetical, pastor and resident-theologian Eric Redmond listens to the questions put to the black church by skeptical black men. He offers a brief diagnosis of the black church’s illness, provides a prognosis of its treatment, and presents a picture of the type of church worthy of black men’s return—the transformed or changed church of the unchanged Christ. This work is a biblical bridge for a conversation that must be continued.

      — Robert Smith Jr., Charles T. Carter Baptist Chair of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University

      The Bible commands that we believers are to be ready to give an answer or defense of our faith with gentleness and respect to every man who inquires about our faith (1 Peter 3:15). Pastor Eric Redmond has provided a much needed tool to equip African-American Christian men to be able to provide biblical and rational answers to commonly asked questions that many of us have to address often who regularly engage in evangelism and apologetics specifically targeting the African-American male. I highly recommend this resource and pray that God would use it mightily to inspire the ‘Ethiopians to stretch out their hands to God’ (Psalm 68:31).

      — William Dwight Mckissic Sr., Senior Pastor, Cornerstone Baptist Church, Arlington, Texas

      Redmond gingerly affirms the black man while taking biblical truths to dispel myths surrounding the church. Men, keep this evangelistic tool in your pocket!

      — Monique Robinson, Pastor of Women’s Discipleship, Faithful Central Bible Church, Inglewood, California; author, Longing for Daddy

      WHERE ARE ALL THE BROTHERS?

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      Where Are All the Brothers?

      Copyright © 2008 by Eric C. Redmond

      Published by Crossway Books

      a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers

      1300 Crescent Street

      Wheaton, Illinois 60187

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.

      Cover design: The Design Works Group

      Cover : iStock

      First printing, 2008

      Printed in the United States of America

      Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible: English Standard Version®. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-0459-4

      PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-0458-7

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Redmond, Eric C.

           Where are all the brothers? / straight answers to men’s questions about the church / Eric C. Redmond

               p. cm.

           Includes bibliographical references.

           1. African American men—Religious life. 2. African Americans—Religion. I. Title.

      BR563.N4R43         2008

      277.3'083081—dc22                                        2007044602        

      To Pamela,

      my Autumn

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgments

      INTRODUCTION

      What You Will Gain If You Give Me Ten Minutes of Your Life for Each of the Next Nine Days

      DAY 1:

      Isn’t the Church Full of Hypocrites?

      DAY 2:

      Wasn’t the Bible Written by Men?

      DAY 3:

      Isn’t the Church Geared Toward Women?

      DAY 4:

      Isn’t the Preacher Just a Man?

      DAY 5:

      Doesn’t Islam Offer More for Black Men?

      DAY 6:

      Aren’t Some Churches Just After Your Money?

      DAY 7:

      Is Organized Religion Necessary?

      DAY 8:

      Jesus Never Claimed to Be God, Did He?

      DAY 9:

      What to Look for to Find a Good Church

      APPENDIX A:

      The Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecies about Christ in the New Testament

      APPENDIX B:

      The Church Does Not Welcome Homosexuals

      About the Author

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      The Lord has been most gracious and kind to me through his Son, Jesus Christ, my Savior. I stand in awe and humility before him daily as I think of his goodness toward me through many people who have helped bring this project to fruition.

      Special thanks to Laureece Hymes, Ted Griffin, and Mark Scott, who aided me with some very fine editing. Thank you to Castello Bentley, Sam Hodges, Quincy Jones, Muriel MatthisLyles, Alfreda McAdams, Shirley Russell, and Rev. Greg Sims, who all read the earliest draft of the manuscript.

      Thabiti Anyabwile, Anthony Carter, Ronald Crawford, Cameron Shoulders, Stacy Scott, James Wilson, and Curtis Woods each read a later edition of the work. Their red ink and pencil marks helped make this work much better than the original.

      I am grateful for the members of Hillcrest Baptist Church who give me grace as their shepherd. Also, I am a debtor to a host of people at First Baptist Church of Highland Park who reared me in the ministry as schoolmasters, giving me a foundation for all of my service and loving me through the years I was cutting my teeth at their expense.

      To my small group, my prayer group, and many others who prayed: I could not have done this without you holding me up before the Lord. I hope you will enjoy the fruit of grace upon your prayers.

      My graduate and undergraduate Black Church Ministry professors Eddie B. Lane and Bernard Fuller added fodder to a burning passion for revitalization in the African-American church. Special thanks goes to Professor Lane who said, The poorest of people need the best of theologians. I

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