Dr. Andy WoodsSenior Pastor – Sugar Land Bible ChurchPresident – Chafer Theological Seminary

The False Gospel of Critical Race Theory

Acts 20:29-31“For I know this, that after my departure savage wolveswill come in among you, not sparing the flock.”Also fromamong yourselves men will rise up, speaking perversethings, to draw away the disciples after themselves.Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night andday for a period of three years I did not cease toadmonish each one with tears.” (Italics added).

Critical Race Theory

I. The Target

II. The Definition

III. The Progenitors

IV. The False Gospel

V. The Answer

Critical Race Theory

I. The Target

II. The Definition

III. The Progenitors

IV. The False Gospel

V. The Answer

KIRK FRANKLIN TALKS WITH MATT CROUCH, ROBERT MORRIS, AND DR. TONY EVANS ON TBN | PRAISE – MARCH 12, 2020. https://youtu.be/nm0PeMU7z2A

Critical Race Theory

I. The Target

II. The Definition

III. The Progenitors

IV. The False Gospel

V. The Answer

UCLA School of Public Affairs: “CRT recognizes that racism isengrained in the fabric and system of the American society.The individual racist need not exist to note that institutionalracism is pervasive in the dominant culture. This is theanalytical lens that CRT uses in examining existing powerstructures. CRT identifies that these power structures arebased on white privilege and white supremacy, whichperpetuates the marginalization of people of color.”

MARXIST ‘CRITICAL RACE THEORY’ INFILTRATES THE CHURCHES AND THE CULTURE – TREVOR LOUDON AUGUST 9, 2019. https://vachristian.org/marxist-critical-race-theory-infiltrates-the-churches-and-the-culture/

UCLA School of Public Affairs Definition of CRT

“Well, it’s just like if – have you ever been in a room and there’ssomething – you feel a little something itching in your nose?There’s a – something in the air, a dust or pollen that you can’tsee....Racism is like that. It’s ingrained in our society and it’staken for granted. And all of the things that are taken for grantedcan accumulate and be deadly on certain segments of thepopulation. And it comes down on the heads of poor people andpeople of color.”

CBS LINES UP ‘EXPERTS’ TO SAY ‘WHITE AMERICANS’ HAVE ‘CONTEMPT FOR BLACK LIFE’ – KYLE DRENNEN, JUNE 1ST, 2020. https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2020/06/01/cbs-lines-experts-say-white-americans-have-contempt-black-life

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Definition of CRT

. . . After two years of practical training in organizingstreet demonstrations, inciting mob violence, how to fightthe police and how to politically “throw a brick and hide,”I was ready, in the opinion of my leaders, for a topcommunist school. . .”

Critical Race Theory

I. The Target

II. The Definition

III. The Progenitors

IV. The False Gospel

V. The Answer

In a 2004 essay Cone opined,“Black suffering is getting worse,not better…White supremacy isso clever and evasive that we canhardly name it. It claims not toexist, even though black peopleare dying daily from its poison.”

MARXIST ‘CRITICAL RACE THEORY’ INFILTRATES THE CHURCHES AND THE CULTURE – TREVOR LOUDON AUGUST 9, 2019. https://vachristian.org/marxist-critical-race-theory-infiltrates-the-churches-and-the-culture

Critical Race Theory

I. The Target

II. The Definition

III. The Progenitors

IV. The False Gospel

V. The Answer

Galatians 1:8-9“But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preachto you a gospel contrary to what we have preached toyou, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I sayagain now, if any man is preaching to you a gospelcontrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!”

2 Corinthians 11:4“For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom wehave not preached, or you receive a different spirit whichyou have not received, or a different gospel which youhave not accepted, this you tolerate very well!”

Tom AscolSr. Pastor, Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, FL.

MARXIST ‘CRITICAL RACE THEORY’ INFILTRATES THE CHURCHES AND THE CULTURE – TREVOR LOUDONAUGUST 9, 2019. https://vachristian.org/marxist-critical-race-theory-infiltrates-the-churches-and-the-culture

“Critical Race Theory and intersectionality” are “rooted inideologies that are incompatible with Christianity.”

2 Corinthians 6:14-15“14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers; for what dorighteousness and lawlessness share together, or whatdoes light have in common with darkness? 15 Orwhat harmony does Christ have with Belial, or what doesa believer share with an unbeliever?”

Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave norfree man, there is neither male nor female; for you are allone in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:14For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups intoone and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall.

Fundamental Questions Christianity Critical Race Theory

Who are we? God’s Image Bearers Group Members

What is our problem? Sin Oppression

What is the new birth? Regeneration Woke

What is the solution? Jesus Christ Liberation

What is our duty? Great Commission Liberate the oppressed

What is our purpose? Glorify God Work for collective salvation

Genesis 2:16-17“16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘From anytree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the treeof the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for inthe day that you eat from it you will surely die (muwth).’”

Titus 3:5“He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we havedone in righteousness, but according to His mercy, bythe washing of regeneration and renewing by the HolySpirit.”

1 Timothy 2:1-4“1 Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers,intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for allmen, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we maylead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinessand reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in thesight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to besaved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Q1.What is the chief end of man?

A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God,and to enjoy Him forever.

“Thus, if race problems – poor relationships – result from sin,then race problems must largely be individually based. Certainlywe heard white evangelicals communicate these themes.According to one Congregational man, race problems existbecause ‘it’s an issue of original sin.’... Absent from theiraccounts is the idea that poor relationships might be shaped bysocial structures, such as laws, the way institutions operate, orforms of segregation…Evangelicals are thus anti-structuralbecause they believe that invoking the social structures shiftsguilt away from its roots source – the accountable individual….

Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 78-79.

Original Sin and Racism

…However, evangelicals are selectively aware of socialinstitutions – they see those that both impact them in theirsocial location and tend to undermine accountable free willindividualism. For instance, they are aware of affirmative actionbecause such programs can impact them in their social location,and they tend to oppose such programs because they go againstevangelical understanding of accountable freewill individualism.”

Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 78-79.

Original Sin and Racism

“To understand this, we must account for the pre-millennialview that had come to dominate the American evangelicalworldview and played a role in limiting evangelical social actionon the race issues. According to this view, the present world isevil and will inevitably suffer moral decline until Christ comesagain. Thus, to devote oneself to social reform is futile. Theimplications of this view were clearly expressed by Billy Graham.In response to King’s famous ‘I have a dream’ speech that hischildren might one day play together with white children, …

Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 47.

Premillennialism and Racism

…Graham, who had been invited but did not attend the 1963march on Washington, said: ‘only when Christ comes again willlittle white children of Alabama walk hand-in-hand with littleblack children.’ This was not meant to be harsh, but rather whathe and most white evangelicals perceived to be realistic.”

Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 47.

Premillennialism and Racism

John 16:2-3“2 They will ban you from the synagogue, yet an hour iscoming for everyone who kills you to think that he isoffering a service to God. 3 These things they willdo because they will do because they have not known theFather nor Me.”

Critical Race Theory

I. The Target

II. The Definition

III. The Progenitors

IV. The False Gospel

V. The Answer

“Slavery is Not a Crime for Almost Half the Countries in the World.”

Sonia Elks, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-slavery-law-trfn/slavery-not-a-crime-for-almost-half-the-countries-in-the-world-study-idUSKBN20620R

Acts 17:26and He made from one man every nation of mankind tolive on all the face of the earth, having determined theirappointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,(Italics added)

John 3:16“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, sothat everyone who believes in Him will not perish, buthave eternal life.”

Revelation 5:9“And they sang a new song, saying, ‘Worthy are You totake the book and to break its seals; for You were slain,and purchased for God with Your blood men from everytribe and tongue and people and nation.’”

Conclusion

Critical Race Theory

I. The Target

II. The Definition

III. The Progenitors

IV. The False Gospel

V. The Answer