Eric Mason - Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

Eric Mason gives insight on societal, racial, and theological matters with proficiency. This book is a rare gem; few leaders are as competent and scholarly in how to address the divides and conflicts in society that greatly affect the church. This is a book Ill share for generations.

LECRAE

Grammy awarding winning artist @lecrae

After thirty-five years of local church ministry, I cannot think of a better word to describe the need of today than woke. What if the church really woke up to its power in Christ, and its position in the world? Let the prophetic ministry of Dr. Eric Mason rally your heart to Gods priority on earth, a church that is wide awake to the needs all around them and what Jesus Christ still wants to accomplish.

JAMES MACDONALD

Founding and Senior Pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel

So incredibly thankful for Eric. Woke Church is a timely and thought-provoking work to help us in these important times. He does an amazing job of giving us fresh perspective on the intersection of justice, race, and the gospel. Our culture is crying for a gospel-centered conversation on matters of race and justice. Woke Church is an instant classic that will help us both individually and collectively grasp the great opportunity before us to live out the gospel in these important times.

BRYAN CARTER

Senior Pastor of Concord Church and codeveloper of 33The Series

Woke Church is a clarion call of lovethe love that is at the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a word of knowledge long overdue for the evangelical context in the secular age. Mason talks with a tone that should mitigate the perceived fatigue factor that often leads to backlash, hostility, and/or dismissal on discussions of the gospels implications for social and racial justice. Readersthose already woke and still asleep alikewho care for the souls of people perishing all around them should be moved to act with a sense of urgency for God-centered righteousness in society after embracing the Christ-consciousness of this great work.

ERIC C. REDMOND

Associate Professor of Bible, Moody Bible Institute

Woke Church is a seriously important book dealing with a core applicational issue in the church and in our society today. It is seriously biblical, showing the connections between reconciliation, justice, love, and the gospel. What God has joined together should not be separated and the church as a multiethnic, multinational body needs to better reflect what God designed it to be. This book helps us think through how to get there.

DARRELL BOCK

Executive Director of Cultural Engagement and Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary

Growing up in an all-white context in the Midwest, but now a part of a multicultural church, Ive had to do much work to gain clarity on justice and race issues. I am thankful for Dr. Masons work showing practical ways we can cultivate meaningful relationships that would cause the church to have an immense impact on this broken world, bringing true justice and true peace.

RACHAEL TURNER

Church planting wife, local church member, Living Stones, Reno, NV

Dr. Eric Mason has done it. In a day and age when the church is looking to halt its increasing marginalization within mainstream society, seeking answers (like the rest of America) to our nations still troublesome problem of racial division and injustice, and desperately hoping to gain disciples among the young, Dr. Mason provides the answer: we need to be woke. Not just the Blacks, not just the millennials, not just the left-leaning, but all of us. The entire Bible-believing body of Christ needs to wake up to the fullness of the gospel messagethat Christ died to reconcile man to God and man to man, or in other words, that Jesus has called us to strive for both personal morality and societal justice. If the church remains stubborn and asleep, it could soon find itself completely locked out of the public discourse. If it heeds the words of Dr. Mason, it could be empowered to spark revival.

CHRIS BROUSSARD

FOX Sports Television Analyst and Commentator
Founder and President of The K.I.N.G. Movement

The Lord neither slumbers nor sleeps. But not so His church. We have constant need of being told to wake up, you sleeper and to keep watch. We are like those first disciples in Gethsemane, spirit willing, flesh weak, falling over on our post. Sadly this has been true of the church when it comes to racism and injustice. We need an urgent call, a quickened conscience, an enlivened heart, a clear vision, and working hands to prophetically address with gospel power the ails of the church and the society. Dr. Eric Mason has thought as much about this as anyone in our day and we have much to glean from this clarion call to wake up and rep Christ!

THABITI ANYABWILE

Pastor of Anacostia River Church in Washington, D.C.
Council member of The Gospel Coalition

While I barely missed the sixties, perusing the current milieu makes me feel as if we are back in those turbulent times. Another black body slain in the streets. Cops called on people of color for walking in their own neighborhoods. Divisive rhetoric from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Silent evangelicals muted by their own incomplete theology. Its time for the church to awake! My friend Dr. Eric Mason not only diagnoses the problem but provides tangible solutions for the people of God to walk in Christ-exalting unity. I believe when the dust is settled, Woke Church will be regarded as a seminal tome in what it means to be the church.

BRYAN LORITTS

Author, Insider/Outsider

Im excited about Woke Church. My son in the ministry has written a classic theological and practical work that will aid the church in a paradigm shift as it pertains to the brokenness that is in our country today. Eric is a prophetic biblical voice the entire church needs to hear. Read this work and be inspired to renew your commitment to seeing Jesus work in our sphere to challenge and even change racial injustice in America.

TONY EVANS

Senior Pastor, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship
President, The Urban Alternative

Any objective reading of the New Testament should bring the reader to the conclusion that God has a great love for the world. This love is demonstrated through the giving of his son who was the prophetic fulfillment of Isaiah 42a servant of God who would bring justice to the world. A biblically balanced soteriology and ecclesiology always has sociological implications. A lack of balance between righteousness and justice is not only unbiblical, its dangerous. It abdicates our responsibility to be salt in the earth and the light of the world. Its an expression of Christianity that allowed and in some cases endorsed the atrocities of slavery and the Jim Crow South. In this incredible work, Dr. Eric Mason calls the church out of her sleep and slumber and awakens her to her biblical responsibility to not only address the sins in our hearts but also in our systems. He passionately and masterfully reminds us of what the Lord requires; to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly before our God. This book is not only a gift to the church, it is a gift to the world.

DHARIUS DANIELS

Lead Pastor, Change Church
Author, RePresent Jesus

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