Saturday, January 24, 2015

AP: Southern Baptist leaders call for integrated churches [To better understand the subtle nature "racial justice," best for Rev. Moore to minister unprotected for a year or two in Haiti or Nigeria. --tma]


Southern Baptist leaders call for integrated churches
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2014 file photo, Rev. Russell Moore, left, director of the Southern Baptist’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, leads a...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Leaders in nation's largest Protestant denomination are preaching that integrated churches can be a key driver of racial justice in society. But that could be a hard sell to those sitting in Southern Baptist Convention congregations.
The Rev. Russell Moore, who leads the Southern Baptist's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is one of several white leaders calling for multiethnic congregations in the wake of the unrest spurred by the killings of black men by white police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City.
"In the church, a black Christian and a white Christian are brothers and sisters," Moore wrote recently. "We care what happens to the other, because when one part of the Body hurts, the whole Body hurts. ... When we know one another as brothers and sisters, we will start to stand up and speak up for one another." ...