One Church

One of the challenges that the Body of Christ is going to have to deal with in preparation for the Kingdom Move that God is getting ready to release in the Earth is the challenge of racial prejudice. Whether we want to admit it or not, there are more than a few Christians that are prejudiced.

Being prejudiced means that a person has developed pre-conceived notions and biases against other ethnicities which are not their own. It doesn't mean that they "hate" people of other racial backgrounds, it means that their interaction and perception has already been tainted by stereotypes rather than facts.

The reason we know that the church still suffers from this disease is because people still talk about going to a "black church" or a "white church." People are now talking about "the Hispanic church." Saints, there is no such thing as a black church, white church, Hispanic church, Korean church; we're just the church! (Galatians 3:28). The fact that we still refer to the church on racial or ethnic terms shows that we're still infected by this prejudice spirit.

The Bible doesn't refer to the church based on ethnic composition, it refers to the church based upon geographical location. Therefore, the question isn't what is the status of the "black church" or "the white church" or the "Hispanic church." The question needs to be, what is the status of the American Church. And as long as we're making reference to the church based upon skin color and ethnic background, it will remain a divided church, not One Church.