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URL:https://firstafrikanchurch.org/events/sunday-worship-2024-03-24/
SUMMARY:Sunday Worship Services
DESCRIPTION:\nGo down Moses\nWay down in Egypt land\nTell old Pharaoh\nTo l
 et my people go!\nOh when Israel was in Egypt land\nLet my people go!\nOpp
 ressed so hard\, they could not stand\nLet my people go!\n-African America
 n Spiritual\n\n\n\nSunday Worship Services Streaming at: https://www.faceb
 ook.com/firstafrikan/\n\n\n\n\nView Verse of the Day\n​\n\nThe lyrics of
  the spiritual “Go Down Moses” were used by Harriet Tubman and other c
 onductors of the Underground Railroad to help enslaved Africans in the Ame
 rican South to navigate towards Northern cities safely in hopes of obtaini
 ng freedom from bondage. The song is a musical retelling of the events fou
 nd in the Book of Exodus in which Moses\, under the direction of Yahweh\, 
 leads the Hebrews out of Egypt\, where they found themselves under the yok
 e of slavery. As African Americans adopted the Biblical text into their sa
 cred ontology\, they became the embodiment of the Biblical Hebrews. The 
 ‘South’ was their ‘Egypt’ and the ‘North’ was their ‘Promise
 d Land’ which was flowing with milk and honey. Most importantly\, God wa
 s seen as the one orchestrating their liberation.\n\nThis is not to say th
 at the acknowledgement of God was ushered into the African psyche through 
 the Biblical text or any of the religions that Africans came into contact 
 with outside of their indigenous religious identities. To the contrary\, A
 fricans already had an understanding of the Creator\, which was syncretize
 d with new nuances but yet continued to undergird their theology. Therefor
 e\, God was merely ‘re-imagined’ in the lives of Africans as opposed t
 o being introduced. For Vincent Wimbush and Theophus Smith\, Africans unde
 rstood the text within this perspective. So even a text that was meant to 
 further oppress\, was interpreted as a paradigm for liberation.\n\nThe mes
 sage of liberation is still prevalent today depending on how one chooses t
 o read it. As we celebrate the triumphs of African Americans at First Afri
 can Church\, we continue to read the text from the perspective of liberati
 on and acknowledging the God within us before captivity. We will examine t
 he Exodus event and explicate the motifs of freedom and what that looks li
 ke in the modern era.\n\nSome Womanist theologians have helped us to see h
 ow the plight of Women is usually left out of this discourse and also how 
 while celebrating the liberation of the Israelites\, there is a celebratio
 n of the subjugation of others. We will\, in the spirit of inclusivity als
 o discuss the acts of Women in the text without whom liberation would not 
 be possible. This will be explored especially in the month of March which 
 is Women’s History Month.\n\nWe will also highlight themes of the text t
 hat help to portray the text as an ‘African’ text which is inherently 
 what it is. Scholars such as Edward Bruce Bynum\, Gary Greenberg and Sigmu
 nd Freud have argued for an African origin of the Israelites and when the 
 text is read with an African lens\, spiritual and religious ideas from Kem
 etic Culture are realized. More importantly\, liberation will be seen as a
 n act of God. The call to Moses to go tell Pharaoh ‘let my people go’ 
 has not changed. God calls us to the same mission today. We are God’s ch
 ildren. Actually\, ALL human beings are made in the image and likeness of 
 God.\n\n\n\nSermon Scripture:\nSunday\, March 3\nBiblical Text: Exodus 2:5
 -10\n\n\n\nSunday\, March 10\nBiblical Text: Numbers 12:1-15\n\n\n\nSunday
 \, March 17\nBiblical Text: 2 Kings 22:11-20\n\n\n\nSunday\, March 24\nBib
 lical Text: Judges 4:4-10\n\n\n\nSunday\, March 31\nBiblical Text: Mark 15
 :40 and 16:8
CATEGORIES:worship
LOCATION:First Afrikan Church\, 5197 Salem Road\, Stonecrest\, GA\, 30083\,
  United States
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