Dr. Chris Williamson
@itspastorchris
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Jesus lover. Husband to @Dorenawill , father of 4. Pastor of @strongtowerbc . Too conservative for progressives. Too progressive for conservatives.
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Some Christians expect us to trace our sins back to Adam, but not to 1619.
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Sadly, there are Christians more committed to the Second Amendment than they are to the Second Commandment.
#LoveThyNeighbor
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One flag is blasphemous, the other is treasonous, yet most conservatives have no problem with either one. I was told that if we “just preach the gospel” men’s hearts would change and the sins of racism will magically disappear. I’m truly convinced your “gospel” is white supremacy
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Welcome to Nashville where the racists and Nazis come out in the daytime, and the political conservatives and white evangelical churches remain silent!
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You invite us to your churches and universities once a year to preach on “racial reconciliation” because you don’t feel qualified to do so yourselves. But when it comes to deciding about CRT, you all of a sudden don’t need us so you make decisions about us without us.
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The evangelical church wants a kind of “unity” that costs nothing.
It wants a kind of “racial reconciliation” that changes nothing.
It wants a kind of “justice” that repairs nothing.
It wants a kind of “truth” that confronts nothing.
No wonder nothing is happening.
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@davidswanson
White privilege is the ability to make the rules AND change the rules when you need them to work to your benefit.
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Just got this text from a friend: “Please pray for my son. He is locked in a room at the Capital with his peers and they were told to remain quiet. He said he is safe but he can hear them in the building saying ‘Come out, come out wherever you are!’”
Please pray with me. 🙏🏾
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I’ve been in white evangelical spaces for 35yrs. One trend I’ve seen is many white “ministers of reconciliation” are ok being a rescuer or a leader of low income blacks, but they struggle or even quit when blacks are their equals or superiors in ministry, education & economics.
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Christian, if something is going wrong in your life that doesn’t always mean you are reaping what you have sown. It might mean that the rain is falling on the just as it falls on the unjust. Please believe the gospel and be set free from guilt and performance-based acceptance.
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Evangelicals, help me understand:
Your God will judge America for abortion BUT He will not judge America for killing indigenous people and stealing their land, enslaving and brutalizing African & Black people, and for making it easy to kill innocent people with guns?
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My shirt garnered a lot of attention today. Several white people thought I was making a statement about my gender. They had no idea about the Civil Rights history behind the “I Am A Man” statement— even when I told them. Sounds like we need to teach more history in our schools!
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They’re out here changing classic Christmas hymns to accommodate white fragility!
The 1843 song “O Holy Night” says “Chains shall He break for the SLAVE is our brother,” but in 2020, “Chains shall He break for his child is our brother.”
Changing lyrics doesn’t change history.
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Are we making disciples or making republicans? I can’t tell. These days, the two seem to be the same.
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Congratulations to my father-in-law Dr. Allen R. McFarland for being named acting chairman of the Board of Trustees for Liberty University!
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When I deal with people who have major blind spots, I always ask God to show me my own.
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@TalbertSwan
In this country, most have been conditioned to believe white is right even when white is wrong, and black is wrong even when black is right.
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A 13 year old boy in my church just had his fifth brain surgery yesterday in Memphis from a tumor, and he asked his mother to place his phone by his head so he could listen to
@lecrae
. “Fight a little longer, my friend.”
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Praying for the six SBC presidents. You don’t win a group of people by imposing a law against CRT. You’ve only succeeded in running them off. Instead, you win a group of people with love and by being willing to listen to them and learn from them.
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I’ve never believed you were pro-life because you’ve hardly ever been pro-poor, pro-minority or pro-immigrant.
It’s not about protecting babies. It’s about keeping political power.
Overly simplistic Christian answers to complex life issues don’t work.
I don’t trust you.
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@RealDLHughley
I love you DL but you’re trippin’ on this. Smooth things out with Terry and move on my brother.
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@lecrae
Don’t be so hard on yourself, my man. We know you AND your track record. We have ALL left conversations saying, “Man! I should have said this” or “I could have said that better!” You’ve only proven that you’re human. We love you, ‘Crae.
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Every president I voted for I wanted to succeed.
Every president I didn't vote for I wanted to succeed.
Anything else is sheer stupidity.
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White kids were strong enough to participate in America’s racist history, so why can’t they learn about it? If we stop coddling them and start teaching them, history just might stop repeating itself.
#CRT
is taught in law school; American history should be taught in ALL schools!
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As a pastor, I’ve learned there’s not much difference between white conservatives and white progressives. They both center their whiteness and bail out when things gets tough or when they don’t get their way—especially if they have to follow black leadership.
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A black person gives a white person an example of systemic racism and the white person says, “Well, that’s just ONE instance” or “THAT particular white person is a racist.”
Privilege is disassociating your white self whenever it’s convenient in order to protect your white self.
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Two young black leaders, Justin Pearson of Memphis & Justin Jones of Nashville, were just catapulted into greatness by a group of racists & fascists who think they did the right thing by expelling them. In time it will be clear who exemplified courage and who displayed cowardice.
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Imagine if there was a golden statue of President Obama. The white church (which is silent right now) would strongly condemn such a thing—and rightfully so.
#GoldenCalf
#Idolatry
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As a black pastor of a multiracial church, I don’t cater to white comfort nor do I seek to alienate new whites who worship with us. My goal is to glorify Jesus by being my true black self while teaching biblical AND historical truth to the best of my ability with grace and love.
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Yesterday, Christ spoke from the cross.Tomorrow, He speaks from the empty tomb. Today is a day of silence. If God seems silent, wait on Him.
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When a republican is the president, evangelicals say “Romans 13” is to be obeyed and the rule of law is to be respected, but when a democrat becomes president, Romans 13 doesn’t apply and all of a sudden we’re in the last days.
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@KSPrior
The same people say, “I don’t believe in Obamacare. My insurance is through the Affordable Care Act.”
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America claims to be a Christian nation until it’s time to be a Christian nation.
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Saving guns but not children. Protecting the second amendment but not second graders. Expelling just leaders but supporting corrupt ones. These same politicians will be in church Easter Sunday praising a Savior who was murdered by religious zealots and politicians just like them.
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It was once illegal for slaves to learn how to read. Now it’s illegal for their black descendants to teach that history. White supremacy then and now is always fearful of black people thinking critically, and will use the law (i.e., systemic racism) to stop it from happening
#CRT
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I pray that when DJT leaves office, Christians who were deceived under his yoke of bondage will begin their journey to find Jesus again or perhaps for the first time.
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The message I’m about to preach
@StrongTowerBC
, I wouldn’t be able to preach in most evangelical churches in America. To hear it, join us in person or online at 10:30am CST.
#GunReformNow
#ToxicFreedom
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When you make a politician your messiah and a political party your identity, you will feel like a fool when they flip on you.
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"There is no form of protest against racism that is acceptable to racists."
@BerniceKing
Marching? No. Kneeling? No. Sit ins? No. Voting? No. Preaching? No. Boycotting? No. Fists in the air? No.
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I’m so thankful to have the kind of white people in my life that when I say, “I’m sick and tired of white people!” they know what I mean and they know I’m not talking about them.
#RunWithMaud
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If I lose Christian friends over political differences, we were never truly friends to begin with.
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Don’t look for the white church to express momentary sympathy the way it did after Charleston, Charlottesville, and George Floyd. That day is over. Their collective heart is not only calloused, it’s defensive because their true religion is in maintaining white supremacy.
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To my Asian brothers and sisters, we stand with you in this hour!
@tweetraychang
@SamObiWon
@EugeneCho
@SarahShinAuthor
@dukekwondc
@profrah
#StopAsianHate
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Two years ago at MLK50 in Memphis,
@BethMooreLPM
prayed with my wife
@dorenawill
in her efforts as a newly published author. This photo is a beautiful picture of the gospel and the fruit of MLK’s work!
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Today, I will walk my oldest daughter down the aisle, and then I will officiate the rest of the ceremony! Your prayers are greatly appreciated! 🙏🏾🙌🏾❤️
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@richvillodas
Some Christians expect us to trace our sins back to Adam, but not to 1619 or to Charleston or to Minnesota or to Buffalo.
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We unveiled a marker telling the story of enslaved men who escaped the Rippavilla plantation in Spring Hill, TN to become United States Colored Troops soldiers in the Civil War! As we learn about these men we must teach others about their courage & quest for freedom.
#FullerStory
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“It’s time to get him out of there.”
NEW: “A NEW DAWN IN TENNESSEE”
Pastors
@gdk_chris
&
@riggs_kevin
deliver 50,000 signatures to get a KKK GRAND WIZARD BUST out of our Capitol.
After hearing about NBF’s horrific slave torture,
@mcwhorters
commits to a meeting by February. A 1st step. 🙌🏾
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@RealFredHammond
I have come to learn that forgiveness and trust are two different things. Forgiveness is to be extended immediately but the rebuilding of trust takes time.
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Last night in Nashville for an event to benefit
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@RealDLHughley
said, “When white folks say to us, ‘If you don’t like it here, you can go back to Africa!’ We need to tell them, ‘You must have forgotten. There’s a no-return policy on stolen goods!’”
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The reason why people like me have to keep talking about racism of the past is because it bears a striking resemblance to racism in the present. Not talking about racism only perpetuates it, but talking about it gives way to reckoning with it and changing systems accordingly.
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The local church was the only place in the Roman Empire where men and women, rich and poor, Jews and Gentiles, slaves and freemen, could come together on an equal basis.
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@stewartdantec
What color a person was mattered for 350 years in this country and it still matters. To deny that is to deny reality. And white Christians love it when black people are “colorblind” because it removes culpability and responsibility from them.
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Beware of boards that want your face at the table but not your voice.
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Together, we made history and together we can teach the truth!! 🙌🏾 Statue unveiled in Franklin to Honor US Colored Troops via
@Tennessean
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Beware of Christian nationalism!
America is NOT the center of God’s eschatological plan, Israel is.
Jesus will return to Jerusalem; not Washington, DC.
Jesus’ feet will touch the Mt. of Olives; not Mt. Rushmore.
Jesus will reign from David’s throne; not the Oval Office.
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Them: I never owned slaves!
Me: That’s true but have you ever benefited from systems that slavery created?
Them: I never thought of that.
Me: Has there ever been societal disadvantages to being descendants of slaves?
Them: In the past but we’re all equal now.
Me: Says who?
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The presidency may have changed but our assignment has not. Let us feed the hungry. Clothe the naked. Help the stranger. Preach the gospel.
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What a glorious time we had today at Strong Tower Bible Church! The King is risen indeed! 🙌🏾
#Easter2023
He’s our great God!
#easter
#hewillcomeagain
@dorenawill
@itspastorchris
@DavidAFrench
#StrongTowerBibleChurch
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@GovBillLee
You said absolutely nothing. You sound more like a lackey than a leader. Since you want to use the Bible, how about using the words, “I Repent!” You should be ashamed of yourself and your awful gun policies.
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“Christian Nationalists want a country in which their heretical version of Christianity is favored above all other expressions of Christianity and all other religions.”
#TheKingdomOverTheEmpire
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I’ve been getting calls and texts to offer public thoughts and prayers. I’m not willing to participate in the cycle. You don’t want me on a live mic right now.
#nashvilleschoolshooting
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Before Eve was a wife, the Bible says she was a woman. A woman’s worth is not found in being a wife or in bearing children. It’s found in knowing God and being known by Him.
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I’m excited to announce that I have joined the faculty of Trevecca Nazarene University as an adjunct professor! I will teach in the MA programs for Theology and Biblical Studies and African American Worship Studies. Please pray that I can serve my students well with the gospel!
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No one expects it, but 2022 will be the year that many people will step into eternity. The best thing we can do is be prepared. Give your life to the only One who defeated death by raising Himself from the dead. His name is Jesus, the Son of God. Trust and follow Him today!
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Until you've walked on water like Jesus, you shouldn't try to use spit to heal people like Jesus.
#SpiritualAbuse
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When it comes to those who hold public office, I personally don’t vote for racists, rapists, insurrectionists, pedophiles, dictators or proven liars.
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Jesus didn’t become white by accident. Jesus became white by occident.
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@JemarTisby
You’re being kind. I would say that many of them are deceived. They’re always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. They traded the gospel for political porridge.
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And THIS is another reason why true American history must be taught in our schools!! It’s tragic how many people believe and promote this crap!!
In a stunning sermon, a minister says enslaved people never rallied in DC to protest slavery. Rather, they relied on plantations' "good people" to teach them to read the Bible so they could repent and end slavery. Mike Keller is Anna Duggar's father. v/c:
@itsrowsdower
on TikTok.
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Truth.
Long before Christianity Today wrote its editorial, Donald Trump was cheating on his wives, lying about President Obama, defrauding students at his university and stealing from his charity, yet most white evangelicals chose to support him anyway.
Most black evangelicals did not.
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I’m married to a rock star!!
#Juneteenth
book for children that adults need, too!!
@dorenawill
you are amazing!! ❤️🤎🧡
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@roblee4
Be strong my brother. God will use these attacks to make you more like Jesus. Remember that you are loved.
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Black followers of Jesus, you know you are no longer assimilating when you no longer need white affirmation, white approval, white permission, white funding, white validation, white perspectives, or white institutions.
You are finally free. Walk in it.
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Attempting to change the curriculum in order to coddle your Caucasian Christian children won’t change the cold hard facts of history.
#RubyBridges
@Moms4LibertyWC
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@ShawnDurham_
If your judgment is true, and it’s not, which of the two has more fruit in his life of honoring Christ? When will we get beyond having to say Jesus’ name x amount of times in a record for it to be godly? Good thing you didn’t rule on the canon bc Esther wouldn’t have made it.
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“The reason we haven’t solved the racial divide in America after hundreds of years is because people apart from God are trying to invent unity, while people who belong to God are not living out the unity we already possess.”
@drtonyevans
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I’m suspicious of white people who want to serve “the poor” (i.e., poor black people in America’s inner cities” or abroad), but they are not submitted to black leadership. This kind of display reeks of white saviorism which is birthed out of white supremacy.
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I didn’t know what CRT was until a white person in our multiracial church accused me of it over two years ago. I learned that some white people with agendas will create false narratives when they refuse to face the truth about racism—especially when it’s told by a black man.
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A fellow pastor surprised me and had these “Juneteenth Pumas” shipped to my house to encourage my soul after my mom’s passing. “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!” ✊🏾👊🏾💪🏾👏🏾🙌🏾
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Black boys need Black men to look up to as heroes.
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It’s not up to black people alone to dismantle systemic racism in America.
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When Jesus saved us, He knew we had issues that were personal, emotional, mental, relational, financial, physical and institutional. That’s why His love for us is unconditional.
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I said this two years ago and I preached on it yesterday. When are we going to stop talking about this assault weapon problem and actually do something about it?
Sadly, there are Christians more committed to the Second Amendment than they are to the Second Commandment.
#LoveThyNeighbor
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As we move closer and closer to election season, beware of people who love lies, practice lies, and perpetuate lies.
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A politicized gospel is a powerless gospel. The world is laughing at the church and understandably so. Shame on those who sell their souls for political goals!
Many conservative Christians feel that Trump is the holiest choice for the White House. Throwback to
@JordanKlepper
trying to find out why.
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