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Longing for Jesus: Worship at a Black Holiness Church in Mississippi, 1895–1913 is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this third volume, Longing for Jesus, Lester Ruth vividly portrays a prominent African-American holiness church in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early twentieth century. Ruth’s rich selection of primary documents presents readers with a vibrant snapshot of this dynamic church and its pastor, Charles Price Jones, caught between factors that threatened the existence of the congregation itself:...

I. The fact of Christ’s resurrection. It is important that this fact be established in our minds, for the scriptures say, “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” [Rom. 10:9, KJV]. Paul declared (in First Corinthians 15) that if Christ be not raised, our faith is vain, and we are yet in our sins. The hope He always held out to His disciples as He journeyed on to the cross and to the grave was
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