CNN is doing a huge profile of Latino's in America. I usually dont watch a ton of CNN however when i flipped by the channel i noticed that they were showing a church. Usually anytime i see a church on tv ill always stop and see what is being said about it. i love seeing how different people view the church and see how the church is portrayed to the world on tv. CNN was documenting a catholic ( i cant remember what city it was in) that was running a low attendance and they were close to having to close the doors. So the leadership of the catholic church decided to reach out to the Latino community. I am all for reaching out to people that arent like you, loving the people that are hard to love (people unlike yourself). The whole CNN story was about the division in this church between the white people and the latino people. They interviewed about 10 white memebers and 10 latino members and asked them the same questions. There was 1 lady in the "white group" that stood out to me. she seemed really passionate about having the 2 congregations united for 1 service and 1 God. however when asked if she had attempted to learn spanish, been to the latino neighborhoods, ministered to latino people, shared a meal with, or been to a latino church event, she strongly said no i dont think i should do any of that. Then she said these words, "how long do we have to go out of our way to meet their needs?" About 2 min. later this same lady started crying on camera b/c she wanted so bad for their church to be united.
If im being honest here, i believe that lady is whats wrong with the american church. there's no love, there's no acceptance, and no patience for people that are unlike you. If we all are really serious about being united for the cause of Christ it starts with loving Jesus and loving people JUST THE WAY THEY ARE, THE SAME JESUS LOVES US.
stay FOCUSED
stay HUMBLED
love JESUS
love PEOPLE
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