For instance, the book of Revelation (7:9–17) depicts the end of God’s movie as an ecstatic multi-ethnic celebration of the redemption wrought by Christ. What a contrast with our typical Sunday-morning church services (aptly described by Dr. King as “The most [racially] segregated hour of Christian America.”) Multi-ethnic church can be messy—but what a movie trailer it can be, when members of diverse “tribes” imagine into present reality the future scene from Revelation 7.
