Historically, how has Christian faith been weaponized to harm black people?

And how is the gospel being distorted today to do something similar?

And by contrast, how does the hope of the gospel actually lead to racial reconciliation?

We'll look at these questions and a whole lot more with our guest,

Dr. and Pastor J.P. Foster, around his new book entitled The Gospel in My Black Skin.

This is Think Biblically from Tabal School of Theology at Biola University. I'm your host, Scott Ray.

I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell.

JP, thank you so much for being with us. You are adjunct faculty here. You have a great impact on students. You have a great impact in your role as pastor of faithful central church in Englewood. Yes, sir. And this new book is just terrific stuff. It's hard. It's a difficult read, not because it's complicated, but because it's painful. Yes. And so, but we're looking forward to getting through the pain and into the hope.

Amen.

Amen.

That is, that I know is the focus of the book.

Yes, it is.

Thanks for being with us.

Tell us, you mean, you've written other stuff.

Why this book at this time?

Yeah, this book is more of a burden to me, a weight, a passion.

I've watched, you know, being, for the most part, connected to the black church

and our church being in the inner city, in the black community.

I've watched young adults and people wrestle with their faith and actually walk away from the church.

And when I began the survey and asked questions and wrestle with some young adults and some

adults that have just been wrestling with the faith, Christianity.

And I think in our context in the inner city in the black church, we deal with different

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