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While African American Christians must wrestle with dueling identity consciousnesses of who they are as Christians considering cultural context, they must also reconcile whether their experiences have contributed to making them who they are and if those experiences have hindered or helped them in their pursuit of holiness. This struggle magnifies in the Black pastor, who is both African American and the undershepherd of God’s flock. Whereas the Black pastor, historically, serves in functions beyond the pulpit, the social justice lens surrounding today’s climate often results in the African American pastor at the forefront of race related conversations. 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