Will You Tell The Story?

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” “Life is too short for Black Christians not to breathe…” After announcing the exciting news of the expansion of The Witness, CEO Jemar Tisby and newly-appointed President Tyler Burns hopped on IG Live to explain more about the changes and…God showed UP! This conversation turned into a cyber sanctuary! Jemar and Tyler shared about what it means to expand under duress, fearlessly clinging to our whole identity, and most importantly telling the RIGHT story. (And they clowned a bit too…y’all know). And you might be asking “Changes?? What changes?!” Say no more, fam: ---- The Witness is expanding! We love to see it! Introducing: The Witness Incorporated (The Witness, Inc) The Witness: A Black Christian Collective is expanding to form The Witness Incorporated as a launching pad for multiple new endeavors. The newly minted philanthropic division is The Witness Foundation, which fills the gap of equipping Black Christian leaders to make a greater social impact. Each will have direction under Mr. Blue Check Verified himself, Jemar Tisby, who founded and led the collective for nearly a decade! Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise will serve as CEO of The Witness Inc., the parent company that will house both the foundation and the Black Christian Collective. The Witness Black Christian Collective is excited to announce that Tyler Burns will assume the role of President of the Collective. Burns, a Florida-based pastor and co-host of the Pass the Mic podcast, has served as Vice President of the Collective since its launch in 2017. His appointment as president of the Collective is the beginning of a new era in the history of The Witness. As President of The Witness BCC, Tyler hopes to continue the organization’s long tradition of amplifying the diverse voices of Black Christians. He hopes that The Witness BCC will continue to engage its core audience by encouraging, educating, and empowering Black Christians to be stewards of the Black prophetic tradition. ----- Read about this news on our website: https://thewitnessbcc.com/the-witness-bcc-expands-to-form-the-witness-inc/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic.
0:12.2	What's going on, What's up, man?
0:14.0	Bro, tell us about the locks, man.
0:17.0	The locks, what you mean?
0:18.0	What you want to know?
0:19.0	Because we hear you on the podcast when we don't get the visual.
0:22.0	So I don't know if everybody knew.
0:24.0	Hey man, I think everybody knew. I think everybody knew. I haven't talked about it because I think there was a, there was, you know, I think we had, I want to say two years ago, two years ago, three years ago, we had a barber shop
0:36.7	podcast. Yeah, we had a barber shop. And yes, I do, yes, I do call them dreads. I do, I am not okay you're not going to start a controversy already but I do call them
0:47.7	dreads I'm okay I'm okay we're okay we'll talk about that later we'll do that on a
0:55.2	podcast but now man I actually wanted to go on this journey with my hair and I
1:01.6	actually wanted to be concurrent with the journey that was happening out the witness actually that was a big part of it
1:06.3	and then secondarily yeah so secondarily I also wanted to
1:11.4	Create a moment for young black Christians to see someone who looks like me operating in spiritual authority.
1:20.0	So I actually wanted there to be a sense of which many people, many young
1:25.3	black Christians have the testimony and the experience and we can talk about this
1:30.3	in many of our experiences of not having a black pastor or a black leader,
1:36.0	much less a black pastor or a black leader who looks like them.
1:39.8	And so, you know, I think there's a level to which like there is a symbolism of you need to see at some point in time the young people go to our church will say our pastor looks like us and he exercised spiritual authority that's possible
1:55.2	So that's that was a big part of it man. I think it looks cool and it's easy so yeah. Oh good. Yes absolutely
2:02.4	I'm trying to grow mine out again.
2:05.0	Oh yeah, so that's why I was thinking. I was getting my ass. Like I was thinking like,
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