Then Samuel took a rock...and named it Ebenezer, for he said, “This far the Lord has helped us.”
1 Samuel 7:12
Ebenezer Baptist Church has been solid as a rock for
more than 121 years. Built on the solid rock of
Jesus Christ, Ebenezer has been blessed
with pastors who not only preach the
Gospel, but take their ministries into
the world and speak
on behalf of the
oppressed, disenfranchised
and
underprivileged.
It was here, from the pulpit of the
Heritage
Sanctuary, that the
Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. preached
his ministry of
nonviolence.
Standing at the
Rock, he
reminded his
congregants
to lean on
the God who
delivered
them through
slavery
and who would
surely
deliver
them through
the fight for civil
rights.
Now,
from the pulpit of
the Horizon
Sanctuary,
Senior
Pastor
Raphael G. Warnock
continues
Ebenezer’s
legacy
as a
church at
the
forefront of
the fight
for
social justice.
During
this
time of national
distress
and international conflict,
he stands
at the Rock and
preaches
that God will once
again deliver the world
through threats to voting
rights, war, and unjust
conditions that
continue the cycle of poverty.
Each Sunday, hundreds of visitors – from around Auburn Avenue and
around the globe – stop by Ebenezer to experience its history and to
join
the church as it strives for Higher Ground. The doors are open to
all
who
will come. Whoever you are, you are welcome at Ebenezer,
and you are
welcome to lean on the Rock. |
