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Segregation in the church?
There is a saying that "Sunday is the most segregated day of the week," meaning that many churches have congregations from only one race.
If you go to church, is it very diverse or not, and how do you feel about it's diversity (or lack thereof)?
What steps could be taken in order to encourage more multi-ethnicity in American churches? (Or do you even feel this is a goal worth pursuing?)
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9 Answers
- ?Lv 44 years ago
each man or woman, no remember what race or ethnic history, is welcome in each genuine Church. at the same time as truthfully if one Church has a sort of music, centers or language that appeals to a definite team better than yet another then that Church could certainly have a majority of the congregation from one or 2 backgrounds, yet that's by ability of the selection of the guy man or woman. it is not any form of "segregation" that's some thing enforced by ability of an exterior authority.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Living in the City, I go to church every so often (even though I am of no religion, like to compare idiocies among each church), and I find that in some churches it is segregated, in others it is very diverse. It depends upon where you live and what the ethnic distribution is.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
as late as the 1980's in the LDS church wards were definitely segregated
but at the same time I did have a samoan bishop
in the LDS church it is taught that skin and race should not be mixxed
however, it is of record that Moses married an Ethiopian.
it is also of record in the book Urantia that Adam took a wife from the brown race.
God truly condemned mixxed marriages and strangers. however, when it came to joining the covenant, the covenant becomes the overriding factor of all marriage and righteousness.
the first question to ask however, is why did God created different skin colors in the first place?
- 1 decade ago
I go to church and it's very diverse. I feel it's not important of what race someone is.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
ANY congregation of The True Church must be open to ALL honest seekers and to ALL of The True Church... if any congregation is not then it is NOT of those of The True Church.... and if ANY individual claiming the title of Christian is not open to offering honest hospitality to ANY member of The True Church or to ANY Honest seeker... then that one has no place in God's Heaven......PERIOD
Source(s): God's promise to me in the instant of my Salvation - Anonymous1 decade ago
i go to church on Saturday