Is the Most Segregated Hour of Christian America Still Eleven O’clock on Sunday Morning?

You see, in the business world, your quarterly financials are your main objective; so, when you suggest replacing Papa John with a person of color this becomes a huge problem because your objective isn’t the Kingdom; your objective is to do whatever it takes to please your investors (read: “tithers”).

(I hope you’re following this; if not, then, I’ll just spell I out…)

If you’re not passionately in pursuit of love then you’ll avoid doing “reckless” things such as desegregating your Sunday meetings.

We get into this mindset of always needing to please our “customers.” For the same economic reasons, Hollywood whitewashes everyone we’ve whitewashed Jesus as a means to please congregants.

Are message and lifestyles have become compromised. Biblical issues become less important when consumerism becomes our main objective. Any form of contrasting thought or diversity is more of a threat than any form of a welcome presence. This is why segregation is the result of consumeristic versions of Christianity.

If you’re a CEO, then dethroning “Papa John” in order to diversify is a risk you won’t take unless investors force it; a pastor/disciple of Christ doesn’t care about financials, because to a fault we’re blinded by this mission imparted upon on us by Christ. It’s almost as if you’re possessed by this mission.

Which this not just explains our homogenous congregations but the mass exodus of the whitewashed Sunday morning programs… sure, the numbers regarding segregation have improved… but, sadly, it’s not that American Christians are becoming less racist and more inclusive; it’s that more people have become so fed up with this lack of inclusivity that they’ve left these institutions; institutions that are showing themselves as unchangeable.

The NFL didn’t steal Sunday out from underneath the Church; the Church just strayed away from the only thing appealling about her, Jesus.

The institutionalized Church, we’ve lost sight of our mission; we’ve replaced Jesus with consumeristic types of ministry, err, capitalism; we’ve turned away from relationship; we’ve made Jesus into a product… that was somehow worse than being “made in China” but was a knock-off “made in America” and, our “prophetic” congregants become far too easily disposed of [1].

If we can then why are we not…?