Will Segregation Help Racial Reconciliation?

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Segregated church services? Yes . . . that seems crazy, but it’s real. Last year, Rick Warren, a pastor and the author of The Purpose Driven Life, hosted an online church event only for “black” members of his church.

Here’s what God’s Word has to say about segregation in the church: “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

In Jesus, any barriers that separated us are broken down. Segregating people by their ethnic background is the opposite of what Christ did when he died for sinners. He came to adopt all who believe into his one family.

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