Pastor and author Tony Evans will explore timeless truths in a Kingdom Conversation broadcast Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern with National African American Fellowship (NAAF) President Frank Williams.

“Kingdom Conversation: Talking Timeless Truths with Dr. Tony Evans” is expected to expand on Evans’ teachings of Kingdom Race Theology and race relations in the current national social climate, Williams said.

The presentation, available on the NAAF Facebook page and YouTube, is intended to be the first of many upcoming NAAF Kingdom Conversations aimed at encouraging preachers, teachers and ministers, and featuring Southern Baptist denominational workers and pastors. Evans pastors the nondenominational Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, hosts the daily radio broadcast “The Alternative with Tony Evans,” and is a bestselling author and speaker whose works are widely resourced in Southern Baptist life.

“Who best to talk about the Kingdom than Dr. Tony Evans,” Williams posed, “who has done so much work (and is) so prolific in his authorship and in his preaching about the Kingdom of God?”

NAAF hopes to provide “to the larger body of Christ opportunities to discuss in a civilized tone and through biblical lenses some of the critical issues that the body of Christ is facing today,” Williams said, “and how the timeless Word of God speaks to that and instructs us during those times of crises.

“And the body of Christ in our neck of the woods, I think, would benefit from a Kingdom conversation.”

Issues on tap for future conversations include faithful preaching in a culture that has strayed from biblical truths, navigating cultural shifts, ministry to millennials and other younger populations, justice and other issues.

Jerome F. Coleman is host pastor for the broadcast that will be livestreamed from First Baptist Church of Crestmont in Willow Grove, Pa.

(EDITOR’S NOTE – Diana Chandler is Baptist Press’ senior writer.)