Black preaching, I believe, is more than preaching with a black face.

It is a unique cultural narrative and theological enterprise where African motifs

meet diverse Western influences of North America.

A beautiful, bold, homiletical voice, poetry, prophetic witness, southern storytelling,

lament, blues, and celebration are born out of this tradition. This is Pass the Mic.

Dynamic voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic.

Greetings and God bless.

Welcome to another episode of Pass the Mic.

Dynamic Voices for a diverse church powered by the Witness, a black Christian collective.

I'm your host, Tyler Burns.

You can follow me on Twitter at Burns 23.

Follow at your own risk.

And joining me as always is the president of the witness, the man, the myth, the legend, the bestselling author. Mr.

Blucheck verified himself. Jamar Tisbee, what's going on, brother? What's up, man? This is another

great topic and I'm excited to hear from you, a student of this subject. Listeners are in for a treat. As you probably heard,

we are talking about the witness of preaching part two in our series on can I get a witness?

This is from one of the greatest preachers alive today, Dr. Otis Moss the third from his book, Blue Note preaching in a post-soul world, finding hope in an age of despair.

So today we're going to talk about this idea of black preaching and also the black church as well.

And as you know, I'm so excited about this. Last week, you got to nerd out

about history and all that type of stuff in our past. And you're the roots guy. And I'm kind of the

soul guy. You know, I need to get a little shouted. You know, I need a good little sermon, man. So I'm a

pastor. So this is near and dear to my heart. Yes, yes. And that's where I think we should start because Tyler Burns is the international man of mystery here. What are you talking about? If you delved into this man's life. It's not true. Like who he knows, what he does, the jobs he's had, you would be like, who is this guy? I thought I knew him

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