Favortism

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. Acts 10:34-35
For God does not show favoritism.  Romans 2:11
I invited a Black man to go to a men's breakfast with me. He is a friend of mine about 70 years old. He is a Mississippi native, picked cotton and all the stuff black people did in the day. Something he said stuck with me. He said, "I have never been to a White Church in my life."  I guess I thought about that description, White Church. I use it all the time, describing a church by the majority of the people that attend that particular congregation. I was a member of several Black Baptist Churches over the years. Second Baptist in Everett, WA. I have learned that if you go to just about any church in the US and the name is Second Baptist, it is probably a Black Church. First Baptist is almost always a White Church. I use this color distinction myself. I was also a member of Bright Star Community Baptist Church, a Black Church. And who can doubt with a name like Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Baptist Church, that it was a black church. I also attended Eastside Baptist Church for many years. Many was the time I was the only White person in the congregation. Hope Church where I attend now, is predominantly white, but of our six elders, two are black. One of the men on the Deacon board was black the year before I became a deacon. We used to have a black man that was very involved in leading worship. And throughout the congregation there are several black members. I am not sure what the percentage is. MY black friend who was in a white church for the first time in his life thought they treated him really well and plans to come back. I wondered how did he expect to be treated? I did not see any different treatment towards him than any one else. We live in a country that had a very active KKK, a white hate group years ago. Today, the Black Lives Matter group which I think, (My Opinion) is just another hate group, only think time the color is black. As I thought about this and the color description, I did not like it. I use it myself and have for years, black  / white and perhaps other race type descriptions of various churches. I don't like it, I don't think the church is suppose to be divided along color or race. I think our greatest draw should be to be like Jesus and not our color or race. It should not be economic or society standing, but to be one in Jesus Christ. In God their is no partiality, he does not show favoritism. I wish we in the church could get away from Black and White distinctions, but strive to be like Jesus first and foremost. It is by our love that the world will know we are Christ disciples. I do not like the descriptor White or Black. God bless, LVZ.