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Actress, Author and Minister of the Gospel, Priscilla Shirer, called on Christians to unite around their Christian identity before anything else in a viral video clip where she says this:
“I do not describe myself as a black woman because that gives too much power to my blackness,” Shirer says in the clip recently shared on Facebook by Chuck Bernal, founder and lead pastor of LifePointe Church in Crowley, Texas.
She extended an invitation to all Christians to embrace their Christian identity above race and politics to prevent themselves from being led astray.
“So you may be a black woman, a black man, a white woman, a white man, but that should not define you. So if your race or if your political group is going in a different direction than the Word of God, you don’t choose your blackness or whiteness or whatever culture you are. You do not choose that or your political persuasion over what God declares to be true,” she said. “I hate to tell you this, but God doesn’t ride the backs of donkeys or elephants. He did not come to take sides. He came to take over.”
The media twisted this message to mean she denounced her blackness. This is not true! This is a 90 minute clip of a full sermon celebrating our identity in Christ! Priscilla shares her heart on her twitter page, check it out!
