according to Christian Sociologist Michael Emerson, 93% of the churches in the United States of America are racially segregated.
1 Corinthians chapter 12
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
There can be no beloved community without beloved leaders. The force of God needs to come upon you and work through you.
Agape love-unconditional
Agapao love-to be loved and loving at the same time. The love of God goes through us.
When Jesus comes back it’s ultimate Justice but until then it’s just us. We need to do it.
You don’t have to be a Christian to know that someone came into this world with a force to love across all bounds.
Tina Turner was kind of prophetic, what’s love got to do with it?
We have to abide in something beyond us to show God to our followers. Some of us have not stepped up because we feel under qualified. God is in the business of recruiting unqualified people. In order for the church to be what it needs to be race, class, ethnicity, and all disparities can’t separate us.
It’s not that people in the suburbs don’t need help. They do for sure. But if the church is really to transform where the pain is we need to be in the city to help. We need a humble, sacrificial leadership force to abide in the force of God’s love and stay.
Dwelling places (small groups) all over the city.
15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Confessing leader-take responsibility.
High pressure collides with low pressure a storm erupts. Is that is what is going on now, politically, economically, etc..? High pressure of what God wants is bumped upon what the low pressure of what we want to do. Jonah’s sin caused the storm. He had to confess that it was his fault.
We all like to have church with our own. Restaurants don’t do that. Black tables, etc…Jesus died for more than that.
Sneak previews of Heaven that are socially innovative. Race labels really aren’t who we are.
17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Sometimes we have to be pruned. You are a grown man, stop calling yourself little wayne, etc…
Build relationships with others, bring a mean that represents your upbringing, sometimes within the programs,
