Multiracial churches
As you can see from the previous, I confess that I’m obsessed with multiracial and multicultural churches. Browsing through the web, I came across another article on “Christianity Today” titled “All Churches Should Be Multiracial“.
In Divided by Faith: Evangelicals and the Problem of Race in America (2000), sociologists Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith argued that much of the racial dysfunction in the American church today is the result of an individualized theological worldview that blinds white evangelicals to certain societal injustices.
Furthermore,
Race, as it always has, plays a significant part in the lives of people living in the United States. It shapes where people live and whom they live with, where people send their children to school, with whom they can most easily become friends, their likelihood of having access to wealth and health, whom they marry, how they think about themselves, and their cultural tastes. Race also shapes how people value others, how much they trust others, provides quick stereotypes by which to classify people, and shapes fears of crime.
Building a multiracial church is quite an uphill battle, but one that is worth the fight.
