A Review of Eric Mason's Woke Church
Conversations That Matter
Jon Harris
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🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Jon reviews Eric Mason's "Woke Church," and then gets Ronnie Nall's (formerly a member of First Baptist Naples) advice on how to engage Christians who hold to Woke Church's Theology.
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Notes on Woke Church from Ronnie Nall:
Page 100 Mason quotes Barbara Skinner. Skinner is a big supporter of Rashida Talib, Ilhan Omar and AOC.
Page 102 Quotes Bryan Loritts who is a big proponent of the gay agenda
Page 105 Quotes Gardner C. Taylor. Founder of Progressive National Baptist Convention
Page 107 "In the eyes of many. BLM has become the voice of black dignity."
Page 116 Mason begins to embrace Dr. James H Cone. So called Father of Black Liberation Theology
Page 124 Quotes Cornel West. Noted Leftist
Page 135 Mason goes into a long list of what "we" should provide. The list looks like a nanny list. Ending with, "If someone doesn't know how to parent, we must intervene."
Page 138. Mason wants his church to have "career path training and development", ""create (sic) sustainable economy that stays in the community". No one can do this. This is a planned economy.
Page 137 Use "housing entities" to help with down payments." This has to mean govt.giving tax dollars to people.
Page 140 Quotes Nelson Mandela. Mandela's ANC party is pure Marxist.
Page 146 Quotes Tony Evans for the 2nd time.
Page 149 Mason's plan for the seminaries. "Practical theology classes need to be developed that focus on the needs in black, poor, and middle class spheres. We must help people understand how the Bible addresses key questions concerning dignity, identity, and significance."
Page 150 Mason praises S Africa's Reconciliation Committee which is 100% Marxist. Stealing property from one group and handing it to another. Mason also praises Rwanda's Gacaca Court. Same thing. International disaster. Mason wants to model these two courts here?
Page 155 "Black women should be affirmed to serve in greater capacities than the traditional roles of children's ministry, choir and hospitality." He does not clarify what this means.
Page 162 Mason finally comes to the answer to all the programs he recommends. City investment. Govt.
Page 163 "What needs to happen in the body if we are going to work together cross-ethnically is that white Christians must reach across the color line and begin building respect and trust for minorities. Minorities must respond with open arms and hearts to these efforts."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Conversations that Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We're going to talk today about a very important book to the evangelical social justice canon. |
| 0:07.6 | It's called Woke Church by Eric Mason. And I've been receiving requests to talk about this for probably the last year here and there and decided now is the time because a lot of people are recommending it. I'm sure Eric Mason's raking in a lot of profits unless he donates them to a charity or something. |
| 0:24.0 | Last, well it wasn't, it was last week, it was this week I guess. |
| 0:28.0 | Paul David Tripp, the Christian counselor, a popular author and speaker, recommended it. |
| 0:32.2 | Eric Mason is his pastor. |
| 0:34.4 | It's Bethany Christian Fellowship. |
| 0:37.5 | And so I decided now's a good time. |
| 0:40.3 | Let's talk about it because there's some really |
| 0:41.9 | concerning things in this book and |
| 0:44.0 | after I give you an introduction to Woke Church and tell you about it we're going to hear from |
| 0:48.3 | Ronnie Nall. Ronnie Nall was a member of First Baptist Church Naples and for those |
| 0:51.9 | who don't know this is a church in Naples Florida big southern of First Baptist Church Naples Naples, Naples, Florida, big Southern Baptist Church |
| 0:55.6 | that had a big kerfuffle last year over Woke Church. Oh, really? And you may say, well, no, Woke Church |
| 1:02.4 | didn't play into it, and the reason I say Woke |
| 1:04.3 | Church played into it is because the pastoral candidate who did not receive the |
| 1:09.2 | approval that was needed to elect him as the new pastor, he came into that church and people in the church |
| 1:15.6 | had found out that he endorsed Woke Church by Eric Mason. |
| 1:18.4 | That was one of the big problems. |
| 1:19.6 | Now of course those who voted against him were called racists from the the pastors at the |
| 1:26.7 | church and then of course this got picked up by people like JD Greer and |
| 1:30.2 | also more and they denounced the racism happening in Naples Florida but really it wasn't racism it was people who |
| 1:35.1 | disagreed with the principles in woke church and so we're gonna talk about that |
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