A Burning House Video Study: Redeeming American Evangelicalism by Examining Its History, Mission, and Message

American Evangelicalism is ablaze.

Doctrinal identity unites black and white evangelicals, but divisions along ethnic and cultural lines have long tarnished the movement's witness. With desegregation on the horizon, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house.” As with the country, if we hope to fully integrate the American Evangelical church, we must do so as firefighters.

In A Burning House Video Study, pastor Brandon Washington challenges American Evangelicalism to embrace its historical commitment to orthodoxy and orthopraxy. Only then can it become a holy witness to humanity and embody shalom—peace, justice, wholeness—in the world. These are the inevitable fruits of espousing and preaching a comprehensive gospel message.

Session Titles and Runtimes:

1 - Fraternal Twins but Aloof Strangers (14 min)

2 - The Evangelical Markers (14 min)

3 - History Haunts the Present (14 min)

4 - The Gestation Period and a Seminal Ideology (8 min)

5 - Colonialism and Slavery (10 min)

6 - Reason over Theology (12 min)

7 - Champions, Monsters, or Both? (11 min)

8 - Are We Hitched to a Sick Horse? (10 min)

9 - Do We Have a Whole Gospel? (14 min)

10 - Is Christianity a White Man’s Religion? (9 min)

11 - Are There Examples of Ortho-Balance? (6 min)

12 - Is Right Belief Enough? (10 min)