Cross Racial Boundaries

This has been on my mind lately. In June 2016,  a Black man was killed by a White Police officer after a traffic stop here in Tupelo. The Black community is upset as they are in countless cities across the country. We see video after video on face book of uncooperative citizens being stopped by the police.  They always seem to blame the police. It doesn't seem to matter that the citizen ran, resisted, fought and was uncooperative. It seems to be getting worse. I thought Tupelo was doing good until they canceled a all city prayer meeting when the Grand Jury announced no charges against the officer. Keep in mind according to statistics the bad incidents like the one causing the turmoil in Tupelo are .0009% of all traffic stops. Keep in mind that it is 2.5 times more likely that a cop gets shot and killed by a Black man than a Black man gets shot and killed by a cop. I do not want to make light of any tragedy, the pain is real to all those families. This is a spiritual battle, and the church needs to be at the front of the battle. We are becoming more divided as the days pass.  We need to cross these racial boundaries on purpose. The most segregated time in America is 11:00 Sunday morning. A lot of it is cultural.  I had German Grandparents on both sides and I remember as a kid when going to my Grandparents church, they sang hymns in German. The minister preached in German. This was in Ashley N.D. I am not suggesting that we need to integrate fully. I think it is OK to have cultural differences in our worship. I am suggesting that churches need to cross those boundaries on purpose. I would like to see a Black Church and a White church, one on one, come together for fellowship and prayer once a quarter. I would like to see a Church of Christ and a a Church of God be able to meet together once a quarter for prayer and fellowship .Lets just get to know one another so we can learn that we are not bad people on either side of the racial or denominational lines. All of us we created in God's image. If we make it to heaven there will not be a black neighborhood and a white neighborhood. There will not be a section in heaven for Baptists and another section for Pentecostals. I believe the Bible teaches we will be one. If we can't work this stuff out below, how do we expect to make it in heaven? I believe we need to leave the past in the past. I don't think there are very many alive today that were responsible for the troubles of the past. We have made progress and until recently were headed the right direction. Now we are becoming more divided and the hate seems to grow daily. Let us find ways to cross those boundaries that are separating us and let God's love show through the Christian community as we work together to fight this spiritual battle. God bless, LVZ.