Are you amazed at the collective silence of the church over the current issues? It continues to prove several things:

The problem in our present moment is that the church will pull out of her go-to bag tons of religious rhetoric to publish to the world, while not understanding that there is no longer a framework for that type of language. It’s not as ingrained in society as it once was.

You don’t fix things in wartime. You fix things during peaceful times. The problem is that we don’t talk about it during peaceful times.

Consequently, even among Christians, racism will continue to thrive as long as Kingdom principles and actions give way to mixing with certain cultural traditions.

The church has cycled through the notion of collective “guilt and repentance” over the sin of racism so many times that it has even lulled its own to sleep.

Within the body of Christ, this has led to a mixing of Kingdom and culture that has driven a deeper wedge between certain races.

For example, some black Christians so mix the tenets of black culture with their faith that they frequently fail to make the necessary distinction between the two when it comes to critiquing themselves.

Conversely, whites will often leave the Bible when it is culturally convenient to protect their traditions or overt ideals.

Amid these mixtures, we also find those who have either been warped by whiteness or those who have become blinded by blackness to such a degree that even listening to the other side seems nearly impossible. As a result, we have been left in a stalemate in regard to a strategic plan for a solution.

However, I DO believe that the church has the best posture right now to be a healing balm and catalyst in obliterating racism at its core. The government should NOT have to be the only one given that task. But the Bride of Christ must update her conversation-language AND the actions that follow to make a sizable impact. Tomorrow is not soon enough.

Far too often, we have tried to achieve oneness through marginalizing racial distinctions rather than embracing them.

The local church does possess the potential capacity to rebuild a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood based on one blood, the Blood of Jesus Christ. That alone is the highest starting point. It won’t end there, but my prayer is that it begins today.