How diverse is your church?

I'm a young black Baptist Christian, go to a nice church in Newark, and my church is virtually all-black.

Here is my church's website, as you can see.

 

Our congregation matches our local; we’re predominantly white with about 10+ percent Black, Hispanic, Middle Eastern or Asian.

Good mix of ages. We’ve concentrated on developing the young married group for the past six or seven years and it’s revitalizing things... Popping out babies now every few weeks.

The odd demographic is the mix of income levels (quite separate from race).
It’s quite scattered, some high, some quite low.... both sitting beside each other praising the Lord together.

Rob

 

Like Deacon's, our church matches our local demographic. We are in a rural community, Anglo, and often related to one another by blood or marriage.

 

Well, that makes sense. I grew up across the Passaic River from Newark in Kearny and the church I went to was nearly all white. That was not a good or bad thing, it was just demographics. A local church should reflect its local community.

 

how blended is your church?

 

Mainly white , as is the make up of my area, but are starting to have some mexican and Black families now attending!

 

We have one mixed race kid that comes with his grandmother.

 

home county is 99.25% white. the congregation is all white. our pastor is 1/4 native american (grandmother was full blood Cherokee) once in a while 3 children who are 1/2 African American attend with their grandparents.

 

I’m not sure what you mean by blended? We have a nice mixture of age ranges, if that’s what you’re asking, lol. I already told you our racial demographics.

 

Up until they discriminate

 

Regardless of “diversity,” churches practice intentional segregation. Think about it.

 

Ah, but consider it in terms of gender, age, marital status, spoken language, worship style. Churches intentionally segregate along such lines, and when they do, they do so because they think it better that way.

 

That would be impossible using TCassidy's observation of one race (see post #10).

Perhaps this is where someone should say, 'Thou art not far from the kingdom of God'? You offered no biblical basis for your claim, which is just as well. You probably know that if you did there would be scriptural counters to it, and that the differing sides may be right in some way.

But the broad point is simply that it is unwise for the church to buy into worldly perceptions of segregation and diversity. We all know this yet tend to forget.

Further, much of the diversity that should be recognized and understood in the church is ignored, or not easily discerned by simply looking around at people. You have to get to know them to perceive it. This is where it gets interesting, and more difficult.