Noah Filipiak interviews Pastor Tyler St. Clair about his upcoming
church plant on the NW side of Detroit, the neighborhood Tyler and his
wife both grew up in. Tyler's target location is one of the "bad parts"
of Detroit, with all of the symptoms of urban poverty ever-present.
After being guided to plant in other more financially viable areas,
Tyler discusses why he is staying committed to this needy area. Noah
and Tyler discuss white privilege and the challenge of ministry
fundraising as a black man. They also discuss the lost emphasis
Scripture puts on loving and ministering to the poor and the need for
the Church to be the body and not hoard all of the resources in suburban
areas. They also discuss how a lot of church planting movements want
to make it look like they are ministering in the poor parts of Detroit,
when they really aren't. Tyler also shares about a season of his life
where he rejected black preaching and theologians, and how God brought
him back to his roots and ethnic identity by introducing him to many
spiritual giants of the Christian faith who come from the
African-American Church.
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