Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

Today in our various western societies, many families descended from former slaves and slave owners are dysfunctional. This dysfunction did not occur in a vacuum and passes down from one generation to the next generation unless the cycle is broken. The descendants from the African Diaspora inherited this legacy. And with this inheritance comes the breakdown we see in our societies and the infighting that still mars us and keeps us ‘down’ today. Many people still live in denial and suggest that, with the abolition slavery over 175 years ago in 1838, that was that and all will be normal. How wrong they were! It was not until the 1960s that the dream of civil liberties started to be realised. There is a saying that goes like this: Rosa [Parks] sat so that Martin [Luther King Jr.] could walk. And Martin walked so that Barak [Obama] could fly.

However, 175 years on, many black men have never being ‘fathered’. Many young black women are still having children for multiple men. Many children are growing up without the knowledge and understanding of what marriage is all about. Does the legacy of slavery still exist? Too right! It is alive and well and needs to be broken.

The current situation is further exacerbated by the continued problem of shadism within the black community, this is a direct legacy of the pigmentocratic stratification, [locating people in society because of the colour of their skin] in society under British colonialism in particular.

To rebuild society we need people to understand and practice the biblical institution of marriage. We need people to understand the impact that the past has on their future and the power there is in the blood of Jesus to break every curse from the past.

Read the letter to the Galatians chapter 3, focussing on v.13.

Contact  Marva and Alton Bell if you would like to attend or have us present a marriage seminar to your community.