CNN: Why Many Americans Prefer Segregated Sundays
[ht: George Bullard, Facebook]The following is from CNN.com...
The Rev. Paul Earl Sheppard had recently become the senior pastor of a suburban church in California when a group of parishioners came to him with a disturbing personal question.
They were worried because the racial makeup of their small church was changing. They warned Sheppard that the church's newest members would try to seize control because members of their race were inherently aggressive. What was he was going to do if more of "them" tried to join their church? "One man asked me if I was prepared for a hostile takeover.
[continued at CNN.com]
Also read USA Today commentary... "Religion Can Help END Wars, Too"
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IndyChristian Ed. Note... Consider some of the growing ideas & links on the collaborative MULTICULTURAL page in the CityReaching.org Wiki. Dare we consider 'repentance' as a starting point?
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Sad.
The church in heaven is clear.
Rev 7:9-10
9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
This is what the church here on earth should also look like!!!!
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