During the past two years, my church (First Church of the Nazarene, Oklahoma City) has cultivated a wonderful friendship with Fairview Missionary Baptist Church, one of the metro area's largest African-American congregations.
A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to march with them in Oklahoma City's downtown Martin Luther King parade. It was cold and very windy and unfortunately my family couldn't make it, but my friends who participated had a wonderful time. And check out that banner -- "Fulfilling The Dream." That's simply eloquent.
I have said before that it is shameful that in America, the most segregated time of the week is 10:00AM Sunday morning. And America's white southern evangelical churches certainly bear a significant responsibility for helping to perpetuate segregation in the American south. Now is the time for us to begin to heal those wounds.
(The photo was taken by my friend and professional photographer Carl Zoch, who is also one of our pastors.)
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