Leadership Journal's Out of Ur blog has a story about two churches merging to becoming multiethnic. As I look at the two churches I see that they are both baptist churches and it raises two questions:
Is denomination more important than ethnicity?
How are they going to merge the two different contextualized styles of worship, leadership, serving the community etc.
This should be interesting. Here is the story
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Post racial???
It is totally ironic to me that Obama stated that we live in a post racial America when:
1. His whole presidency was shadowed by race from the controversy over Jeremiah Wright's sermons and theology to the fact that he is the first African American president
2. The whole incident with Henry Louis Gates and the Boston police officer James Crowley
3. The outburst of South Carolina Rep Joe Wilson against Obama's health care reform bill. The outburst then being called out by former President Jimmy Carter as "based on racism" Check out the video here
4. Kanye West's grabbing of the mic and interrupting Taylor Swift and the racialized youtube commentaries that have sprang up after the incident.
As much as we want to live in a "we are the world" fantasy we cannot escape the issue of race and ethnicity. That's why I am grateful for being in a multiethnic church and I pray that we continue to make progress in tackling these issues head on and pursue the vision of Revelation 5:9
And they sang a new song:
"You are worthy to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
because you were slain,
and with your blood you purchased men for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation.
Revelation 5:9
1. His whole presidency was shadowed by race from the controversy over Jeremiah Wright's sermons and theology to the fact that he is the first African American president
2. The whole incident with Henry Louis Gates and the Boston police officer James Crowley
3. The outburst of South Carolina Rep Joe Wilson against Obama's health care reform bill. The outburst then being called out by former President Jimmy Carter as "based on racism" Check out the video here
4. Kanye West's grabbing of the mic and interrupting Taylor Swift and the racialized youtube commentaries that have sprang up after the incident.
As much as we want to live in a "we are the world" fantasy we cannot escape the issue of race and ethnicity. That's why I am grateful for being in a multiethnic church and I pray that we continue to make progress in tackling these issues head on and pursue the vision of Revelation 5:9
And they sang a new song:
"You are worthy to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
because you were slain,
and with your blood you purchased men for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation.
Revelation 5:9
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