The Church is Colorful

The kid’s jaw flew open. His head shook in dismay. He sighed and gasped and had the most puzzle look on his face.

Michael Brown.

Ferguson.

The reporter tried their best to describe the scene from all angles, but the kid got it. He saw what happened. He didn’t need context. He didn’t need an explanation. He saw it as clear as day.

Perception is everything.

Ferguson. Baltimore. Florida and Mississippi.

The location may change, but does it really matter? We have a problem in America. We are divided across political, racial, socio-economic, and so many other lines.

We are divided.

Black lives matter. All lives matter. Can we really speak into this? Do we have the right?

We have a culture problem. We have a church problem.

But with any problem, we problem solvers.

There are solutions.

In respect to the divides that separate us, perhaps the Gospel is the one thing that unites us.

Jesus paid respect to the culture he was in, but no matter the context, his aim was to show them who he was and bring them back home to God.

He saw color. He saw culture. And yet he saw opportunities.

Today we see the same. We see the world for what it is worth. We see the divide yet hope for unity.

This week we pray for opportunities, as we join with Praise Chapel and the Praise Chapel World Conference. We join over a dozen countries represented and even more languages spoken. We join a thriving group of church planters who are as colorful as the world we live in, where skin color is not a topic of division, but rather a topic of discussion. We join a movement of people who care for their communities where they are at, in the hope that as we embrace this opportunity, God does what God does best, and people see him for who he is, and come back home.

This week is a week of opportunities. Will join us in prayer as together we pray for God to move in a mighty way through the minsters in attendance who seek to see His kingdom and will be done?