OPEN HEARTS
OPEN HEARTS
WE MUST BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT
DI V E
RSITY
Diversity in our churches isn’t going to
happen unless we are deliberate about it.
W
hy should we do what we can
to create diversity in our local
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people who look like them. We work
gender and socioeconomic status? together, play together, shop and eat
love our neighbor as ourselves? Did he not
teach that we are to be neighbors even to
our “Samaritans”? That we’re to be open
and accepting of those who are different
from us?
God created us all—therefore, each of us
represents an aspect of His person. This
means that, to truly be a reflection of our
Creator, our churches must be diverse.
TO CREATE HEALTHY
DIVERSITY IN OUR
CHURCHES, OUR
DIFFERENCES—
REGARDLESS
OF WHAT THEY
ARE—MUST BE
CELEBRATED.
Huey Hudson is senior pastor of Restoration Church (Huntsville
Foursquare Church) in Madison, Ala., and chairperson of
Foursquare’s board of directors.
together, but when it comes to worshiping
because God intended it. Acts 17:26-28 the one God who made us to be one
makes it clear that we’re all connected blood, we seek out those who are like us.
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isn’t that what Jesus instructed? That we
Yet it seems that in our quest for God,
ethnicity and includes a variance of age,
from one blood every nation of men to
open the doorway to their hearts. And
dwell on all the face of the earth” (NKJV).
many choose to pursue Him only with
through God’s divine plan: “He has made
People want to be loved for who they
are, and love is the one sure thing that can
Huey Hudson
churches? A diversity that goes beyond
First of all, we should pursue diversity
what they are—must be celebrated.
To create healthy diversity in our
churches, our differences—regardless of
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