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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

On today's episode, you'll hear a discussion between Philip Holmes, Walter Strickland,

and Carl Ellis. On free at last, the gospel in African-American experience 25 years later.

This panel was originally held at TGC's 2021 National Conference.

All right, so let's set the stage for this conversation.

And Dr. Ellis's book, free at last, he said this, he says,

a survey of African-American history reveals that like the children of Israel,

we have had a 400-year collective trauma from which we have yet to fully recover.

And like the children of Israel, we have sojourn in a philosophical wilderness as our

thinking has developed. There's another quote that I want to read because I think that's

going to put this particular talk or this particular panel in context. It's by a Christian

counselor by the name of Diane Lindbergh. She says this, we have participated in the rejection

and the contempt of others based on the race. The dignity, humanity, and value of one created

in the image of God had to be denied or minimized in order for slavery to survive for more than two

centuries in America. Get this, it does not take much thought to realize that damage was also done

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