Can’t we all just get along?

Came across an this interesting article today:
“Why Many Americans Prefer Their Sundays Segregated”

Racial diversity is never the goal Christ is. But can someone tell me how and why we limit ourselves to thinking and believing that one ethnicity can truly reflect and exalt the name of Jesus Christ. Why are we comfortable with worshiping and living amongst one ethnic group of believers when our surrounding city and region clearly represents a mix. The picture is Christ and as ludicrous as this sounds if we were to sit down and sculpt a body based off of the majority of Christians mindsets we would produce a body made up of all toes, hands, mouths or feet, there would be no balance and it would look awful. My friends this is what we live and the world is seeing and awful view of the Savior.

The first century church blew people away with the mix in their congregation not because they pursued diversity but they pursued Jesus everywhere, it was not selective. The first century church does not have to be a relic that is viewed as the past of what could have been. We can be the church that blows people away because of the way we pursued Christ. Let’s pick up that mantle and be the church the world marvels at. We tend to like what we like, and pursue Jesus where we want, not were he calls even at the expense of Him. Throw diversity out the window but in order to be that church we must be humble enough to say that our respective ethnicity’s and ideologies can’t maximize Christ beauty. Sadly that is an admission that might not come until we see him face to face (Revelation 5). But until then we must preach the polarizing truth of Christ which claims the eye, hand, foot etc. need each other (1Corinthians 12:12-27).