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It still resonates today.
In his book, "The Coming Race Wars," theologian William Pannell foresees the poor and disenfranchised engaging in violent urban uprisings and revolts across the world similar to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. It will only be a matter of time, he writes, "before some cop blows it again in his or her treatment of a Black person, probably a Black man."
Police brutality, racist and discriminatory lending practices, lack of well-paying jobs could push Black people and other marginalized communities to revolt, Pannell predicts. And the evangelical church - with all its influence, resources and its supply of missionaries across the world - is ill-equipped to address social issues at home, he argues. Pannell, professor emeritus of preaching at Fuller Seminary, pushes back against the notion that Jesus is all people need to make it.
"I really do believe that people - all people - need Jesus," Pannell writes. "But to make it in society, white Christians realize they need a lot more than salvation. They may expect Black people to be content with salvation in Christ. But that is...