So this is a really hard thing for me to write, but when you look at the picture below does it make you feel pleasant? How much less do we think it hurts the Lord when squabbles about the color of a person’s skin infiltrate into the Church from the world?- and actually on social media! I speak from first hand experience: In case anyone hasn’t noticed, I’m not exactly white. I grew up in ‘white working class’ Yorkshire, in Great Britain in the 1970’s at a time when racism was on the rise and being the ONLY mixed race person at least for the first 10 years of school, I was (not so politely) referred to as “half-cast”. I went through school feeling like and being treated as a third-class citizen: I was ostracized and felt inferior, and times are not like today: there was no support or lobby group I could go to for help or acceptance. I went through life bitter, self-centered and lacking in confidence. Then I was found by the Lord - and.... I GREW UP - and was brought low, by th...
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