God culture

Today I was reading a note a friend of mine wrote on facebook about how 11 a.m. Sunday morning is the most segregated time of the week.I agreed that unfortunately this is the case. This is one part of the church that has always made me uncomfortable. Because when I read God's word about ONE body and ONE spirit and about how as a people God has reconciled himself to US, and then I see "US" split up in different groups segregated by our differences, our backgrounds and neighborhoods, it grieves me.

I've always believed in diversity and how God called us as a holy people to be set apart. It's hard enough these days to truly live a Christian life (not half-steppin) and not being ridiculed, being seen as narrowminded, and being accused of "judging" others. I think people just can't handle the truth because when someone speaks the Word of God, those words hold endless truth and life and shine light on the flaws that the person who hears them had been trying to hide. They look at the person speaking and think that they are judging them, but the fact of the matter is: they're already condemned (read John 3: 18-21, and it would hurt to go ahead and read John 3: 16 & 17 before it, just to put it in better context for you.) Hey, God says it better than I can (check it out):

19"This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

John 3: 19-21

I'm going deeper into a subject that I could talk about literally for hours and hours, but the important things is what I spoke of in the beginning. UNITY. I feel like this is part of my life's purpose. I'm passionate about it. I'm passionate about bringing together Christian women from all over the world and that we can meet together with the commonality that Jesus Christs blood allowed us to be children of God. Period. I would definitely like to see this subject put out there more often.

And i feel like we, the people in the body of Christ, sometimes need to get over ourselves, our fears and our insecurities and come together under the LOVE of Christ. And yes, this would mean coming out of our "comfort zones", but ultimately, how does a comfort zone pale in comparison to growing stronger together in Christ and spurring each other on to have a stronger relationship with God.