It has often been said that church on Sunday morning is the most segregated time in America today. This rings true in Mississippi. We claim to be an ethnic “melting pot,” yet people of different nationalities and backgrounds—black, white, Latino, Asian, Eastern European—most often worship with people who look, act, and talk like themselves. In His high priestly prayer in John 17, Jesus prayed that all the church might be one as He and the Father are one, as a witness to the world. Yet on Sunday morning, we seldom model this reality of the gospel.
