"Does your church teach people to love other people? What do you think of gays? Other religions? Races? I could never attend a church that teaches that it is ok to hate other people."
What do we need to do to become a church of all nations & races? How do we bridge the gap? Music on the welcome cd isn't enough. We need to invite another church to partner with us. Have their band come play with ours and ours with theirs. Have the bands switch places, have the pastors switch places? We need to talk about it more; we need to get it in front of the congregation and keep it there.
Its true. The only place in America, and most of the world for that matter, that will tolerate segregation is the church. Its openly accepted and participated in freely! What can we do to change this? What needs to happen in the church, in our church, to change this? We need to make folks see it as an issue, educate them; but how? Worship styles are different; teaching styles are different; how do we blend them? Can we? Would that help?
I need to start with my team. It's not ok to change songs because you don't like it... If we want to have a multi-cultural church then we need to start by being multi-cultural...
