Married Pastors Spread the Word to Brooklyn Millennials
How do you spread the gospel to young black millennials motivated by digital activism?
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Married Pastors Spread the Word to Brooklyn Millennials
Clip: Episode 4 | 2m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
How do you spread the gospel to young black millennials motivated by digital activism?
To reach a population of young black millennials motivated by digital activism, married pastors Gabby and Andrew Wilkes began their ministry in Brooklyn. They aptly titled it "The Double Love Experience."
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Married Pastors Spread the Word to Brooklyn Millennials
Clip: Episode 4 | 2m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
To reach a population of young black millennials motivated by digital activism, married pastors Gabby and Andrew Wilkes began their ministry in Brooklyn. They aptly titled it "The Double Love Experience."
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- To reach a population of young, Black millennials, motivated by digital activism, married pastors, Gabby and Andrew Wilkes, began their ministry in Brooklyn.
They aptly titled it The Double Love Experience.
- A Jesus movement.
- A Jesus movement, - Committed to Black lives.
- Committed to Black lives.
- An equitable economy.
- An equitable economy.
- For all God's creation.
- For all God's creation.
- And a spirit led.
- We're named after the double love commandment in scripture.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, neighbor.
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like unto it, love your neighbor as you love yourself.
(soft music) - The movement for Black Lives is a clarion call, for our generation in particular.
Many of us were becoming, at the time of Trayvon Martin and so many others being slain at the hands of vigilantes and police officers, and this was our way of declaring that our lives mattered.
- I think, fundamentally, being a Jesus movement for Black lives is about recognizing that Christianity is very much a flesh and blood religion.
It's significant that our connection to Jesus isn't we happen to be Black.
It's an intentional decision on the part of God to root us in our culture, our race, our ethnicity, and so we try to center the religion of Jesus as intrinsically affirming of and celebratory of Black lives.
Corporate support for GOSPEL was provided by Bank of America. Major funding support was provided by the Lilly Endowment Inc., Gilead Sciences, Inc., the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Emerson...