http://www.independentconservative.com/2007/04/13/jamal_harrison_bryant/ The Independent Conservative saying what needs to be said! Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:35:55 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.independentconservative.com/2007/04/13/jamal_harrison_bryant/comment-page-1/#comment-5089 Jamal - Harrison Bryant And Steve Munsey Moneychanging Together For TBN? « Heal The Land With Spiritual Warfare Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:46:34 +0000 http://www.independentconservative.com/?p=1331#comment-5089 [...] Posted by healtheland on April 14th, 2007 It is true, it is true. I actually watched Jamal - Harrison Bryant on his grand TBN debut when he triumphantly declared that it was a historic moment: the first time an African Methodist Episcopal Church was featured on TBN, which to me represented a historic opportunity for TBN to expand its reach into black audiences and mainstream denominations of all races who currently feel put - off by the evangelical movement because of its conservative politics, which at the time I felt was A GOOD THING (I, er, feel othewise now). Now prior to this I had known about him because he was being given a huge push on The Word Network; his own show plus a bunch of specials. Yet though I loyally watched The Word Network at the time (TD Jakes, Fred Price, Paula White, Juanita Bynum, etc. big supporters and defenders of them all I was until TBN ruined it all for me by introducing me to the term “Oneness Pentecostal” in an Azusa Street commemorational book they sent me; not that all of these people are anti - Trinitarian heretics, but that was the beginning of my eyes being opened) I just could not watch his show. Something about him; I cannot put my finger on it. Further, there was the fact that he named his church “Empowerment Temple.” Now as one who spent years in the grips of fever swamps of “black radical racism hate and kill all whites Jews Christians Asians” (yep, I went straight from “holiness or hell” to the fake hip/hop black power movement) and was new in Christ, I just couldn’t deal with mixing that terminology with Christ. Now I know that Jamal - Harrison Bryant SAYS that he MEANS spiritual empowerment, and he also means financial empowerment through the prosperity doctrine that he preaches (which at the time I also was an adherent to) and THAT THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HELPING YOUR OWN KIND WHEN YOUR OWN KIND IS DISPROPORTIONATELY POOR AND PLAGUED WITH ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS, but on the other hand, WHY ALL THE TIES WITH POWERFUL INFLUENTIAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, PASTOR BRYANT? It just seemed to be some weird mix of prosperity doctrine and liberation theology, Creflo Dollar crossed with Al Sharpton, and all under the auspices of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. So, I just couldn’t deal with it. [...] [...] Posted by healtheland on April 14th, 2007 It is true, it is true. I actually watched Jamal – Harrison Bryant on his grand TBN debut when he triumphantly declared that it was a historic moment: the first time an African Methodist Episcopal Church was featured on TBN, which to me represented a historic opportunity for TBN to expand its reach into black audiences and mainstream denominations of all races who currently feel put – off by the evangelical movement because of its conservative politics, which at the time I felt was A GOOD THING (I, er, feel othewise now). Now prior to this I had known about him because he was being given a huge push on The Word Network; his own show plus a bunch of specials. Yet though I loyally watched The Word Network at the time (TD Jakes, Fred Price, Paula White, Juanita Bynum, etc. big supporters and defenders of them all I was until TBN ruined it all for me by introducing me to the term “Oneness Pentecostal” in an Azusa Street commemorational book they sent me; not that all of these people are anti – Trinitarian heretics, but that was the beginning of my eyes being opened) I just could not watch his show. Something about him; I cannot put my finger on it. Further, there was the fact that he named his church “Empowerment Temple.” Now as one who spent years in the grips of fever swamps of “black radical racism hate and kill all whites Jews Christians Asians” (yep, I went straight from “holiness or hell” to the fake hip/hop black power movement) and was new in Christ, I just couldn’t deal with mixing that terminology with Christ. Now I know that Jamal – Harrison Bryant SAYS that he MEANS spiritual empowerment, and he also means financial empowerment through the prosperity doctrine that he preaches (which at the time I also was an adherent to) and THAT THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HELPING YOUR OWN KIND WHEN YOUR OWN KIND IS DISPROPORTIONATELY POOR AND PLAGUED WITH ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS, but on the other hand, WHY ALL THE TIES WITH POWERFUL INFLUENTIAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, PASTOR BRYANT? It just seemed to be some weird mix of prosperity doctrine and liberation theology, Creflo Dollar crossed with Al Sharpton, and all under the auspices of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. So, I just couldn’t deal with it. [...]

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