Diversity? Look No Further Than The Church

Jesus walking with his disciples

Some say that Sunday morning at 10 a.m. is the most segregated hour of the week. That may be the case. I don’t know. I hope it isn’t. I pray it isn’t. It surely shouldn’t be. However, what I do know with certainty is that at this same hour of the week there are more diverse people doing one united thing than at any other time. For the Christian faith is practiced by and the Church is made up of a tapestry of people, whose diversity far surpasses that of any other entity on the face of the earth.

The often repeated sentiment that Christianity is a Western religion is a falsehood. Neither is it a “white man’s religion.” This wasn’t true at its beginning, over the course of its history, nor is it true in the present. Christianity is African, South American, North American, European, Asian, and Australian. It is a faith practiced by as diverse people as American Indians, Mexicans, Spaniards, Germans, Russians, Nigerians, Japanese, Laotians, and Samoans. Keep reading