Will black people ever truly fit in the Vineyard church context? In my opinion this is a very tough issue. Black people are kind of not hard to miss anywhere by virtue of our physical appearance. That was one of the advantages of using us as slaves-easier to catch the runaway. If a black person put on different clothes and talked differently there was still the hair, the lips and nose, the skin tone that made us stand out like George Bush in a Ludacris video.
Physical appearance aside is there something in the DNA of the Vineyard movement that totally does not fit the black culture? Can the black culture with it's appreciation of wearing the best gear (clothes) and being emotionally expressive (particularly pentecostal church culture) fit and gel with the Vineyard? These are just some of the issues that need to be unpacked. Share your thoughts with me
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