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

If we can then why are we not…?

It becomes sickening, when you read this research (here) on the negative and even deadly consequences of our churches lack of inclusion.

Pastors would rather see a black-American suffer than lose a rich white congregant paying their salary.

This doesn’t feel very “Jesus-y”.

If your church has the ability to empower then oppressed then why are the oppressed not feeling empowered? Why are they not given positions that shift the culture?

The serious question we must confront is this: Why are POC burning out faster than others within these aforementioned homogenous churches?

We’re doing the opposite of curing cancer and healing the sick; we’re exiling, ostracizing, and alienating; we’re possibly one of the primary causes for mental illness, increased risk of heart disease, and cancer.

The American church has become exactly what Jesus came to dismantle.

And, I don’t say this lightly, I say this sadly but with certainty: The church is not just the cause of cancer but the church has become cancer in another itself. Just as I wish friends would quit smoking (for proven negative effects it has on one’s health), I also pray that certain friends of mine would leave various Christian institutions (because of proven negative effects it has on one’s health).

We can curse the darkness or we can choose to light candles…

Look, what you search for, inevitably, you find. Therefore, be careful what you expend your energy on looking for.

If you’re in a first world or “privileged” context, then, your disadvantage is that of misdirection and distraction.

My listing out these statistics and how the mechanics of consumerism, essentially, perpetuates and institutionalizes bigotry hiding under the guise of Christianity… you can either become paralyzed by despair or inspired to take action seeing the need for more good people, smarter than the “system,” whom are willing to suffer for the sake of the Kingdom.

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[1] It should be said that in today’s church culture it does not take much for someone to be considered “radically prophetic.” Literally, just raise your hands during worship at 9 out of 10 PCUSA services (Presbyterian) services and suddenly you’re John the frickin Baptist.