Here’s an issue that no one really likes to bring up or discuss but an issue of importance none the less in the Multi-cultural environment: Multi-racial dating and marriages! What is your emotion when you see a mixed race couple?
Years ago, it was certainly less prevalent than it is today and for many it was an issue that didn’t seem right. Why would a black man and a white woman marry? How did they get together, when their lives and backgrounds are so different? Shouldn’t they consider how difficult it will be for their children and the stigma that they will have to deal with?
You know, all of these concerns just never made any sense to me! I personally could never understand how people could think that way and why they believed that way. But it certainly was an underlying thought for many in our nation. In fact I remember about 11 years ago when a guy called the Westbrook office one day and asked if a mixed-race couple could come to our church. Of course my answer was – “Heaven’s YES!”. They came and today we probably 20-30 mixed race couples in our church. In fact three of our staff families are mixed – race. Listen folks, we are one in Christ, whether Gentile or Jew, slave or free, black or white. I think it was the Apostle Paul who said that. This is the world we live in and this is the world that we need to accept to be the body of Christ