Apprising Ministries continues coverage of the fallout from ER2.

Apparently, this is now a race issue.

Beginning at 4:00 into the video in Post-Elephant Room Interview, Part 1

Patial transcript courtesy of Christine Pack of Sola Sisters:

Bryan Loritts: “Some of the strongest reactions were African Americans in the blogosphere….um, I’ll just go ahead and say it, who strike me as wanting so bad to be in the white theological world. And to take a little bit of a tangent here, and I’ll get back, the loudest voices in the conservative evangelical world, in my estimation right now, are your older, white reformed voices. And so that implicitly sends the message that mature Christianity in the conservative evangelical world is ‘older white.’ And you’ve got some African Americans who so idolize that – what some people would call white idolization – that they then feel as if they’ve got to be the voice for black culture to speak against people like T.D. Jakes. So what happens is, you kind of prop them up. When the truth of the matter is, the term ‘black’ is very complex…….We’re different, we’re different. So my concern is, African Americans, a small minority speaking against Jakes, and then leveraging that in the white theological world for some of these older white theologians….”

 James MacDonald: “What would they be leveraging it for?”

Bryan Loritts: “To fit into their circles….” 

James MacDonald: “Opportunity…?”

Bryan Loritts: “We want to be in their circles. And so we’ll allow ourselves to used as a puppet. That is my perception of some of this backlash.” 

See also:

FALLOUT OF THE ELEPHANT ROOM 2 HITS ACTS 29 CHURCH

VODDIE BAUCHAM, WHO TURNED DOWN AN ER2 INVITE, SPEAKS OUT ON THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

THERE’S MORE TO THE RESIGNATION OF JAMES MACDONALD FROM GOSPEL COALITION