This is very surprising to me. Apparently Sunday continues to be the most segregated day of the week:
"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?"
Read the rest HERE.
I gues my first comment would have to be that in the Bible there is no concept of different races. In Genisis God made each creature according to its kind, and man is only one kind. We share one set of original parents- thus we are all related DNA studies prove this.
ReplyDeleteSo we are not different races, just different variations of the same kind. The differences are al observed and sorted by language, culture and skin color. God scrambled the languages after the Tower of Babel to keep man from going into total rebellion as one population.
Culture differences are based on geographical boundaries and tribal traditions.
Skin color is determined by how much melatonin is in the persons skin cells- purely an adaption to different weather conditions.
The idea of different races comes from a naturalistic (evolutionist) world view that surmises that humans developed from several parallel starts and "evolved" into seperate blood lines.
The natural outcome of this thinking is the concept that one race is superior to another and will win the battle of natural selection- thus the advent of fascism and national socialism, and other non-Biblical teachings.
Only the truth can overcome racism- and the truth comes from rightly dividing and preaching God's Word.
i think it's interesting that this kind of segregation is easy to spot as wrong.
ReplyDeletehowever, most church planting and church growth manuals tell you to find a niche and segregate with it...be it music preference, economic status, education, etc.