Monday Reflections

Over time you learn some things about yourself and how you interface with your world. So this week I am going to share a few things I have learned about me in list form. Here goes list number one....

Stuff that makes me happy.....

• Hugs from children. (I love cuddly little kids.)
• Cynthia running her fingers through my hair.
• Praying with the SGC elders
• Coffee blended just right (café con leche)
• Finishing a workout
• Going to ND football games with Cynthia
• Hearing exaggerated stories from my father-in-law, Johnny
• Traveling with Cynthia
• Watching my sons wrestle
• Laughing with my mom
• Riding a bike real fast
• Singing in the car

Next...stuff that makes me sad.

Baggage Series Playlist

Here is our music playlist from our current series called Baggage.

UndoneLifehouseShower the PeopleJames TaylorYour FreedomHillsongMy DelivererRich MullinsWant to Know What Love IsForeignerFragileStingCrashing DownMat KearneyAtmospheretobyMacCrossesZero7Arms OpenWideHillsong UnitedYour PromisesGlorious UnseenDirty SecondHandsSwitchfootBrighter Than SunshineAqualungUndeniableMat KearneySimple ThingsZero7Sweetly BrokenJeremy RiddleThis WorldZero7TodayZero7 Fix YouColdplay

You will hear this playlist during the October Baggage Series at SGC.

church diversity sux

Did you know that only 5.5% of all Christian congregations are considered multi-racial*? So what is a multi-racial church, you ask? According to one study (footnoted below), to qualify as a multi-racial church, no more than one race makes up 80% or more of your congregation. So you can be 79.9% black or 79.9% white and technically be considered multi-racial. Are you getting this? Only 5.5% of churches in the U.S. meet this criteria....which is pretty generous, in my opinion. We all know that segregation in the Christian church is a fundamental problem, but so few are talking about this. That's what I like about this guy.

Scott Williams is the pastor of the NW campus of lifechurch.tv in Oklahoma. He delivers some straight talk about church diversity in this 9-minute video talk from a worldwide video conference called The Nines. It was a full day of talks by various church leaders given 9 minutes to speak their peace. In this talk Scott tackles racial diversity. I think it is excellent. Tell me what you think. Click here to watch.

*Figures obtained from calculations using the 1998 National Congregations Study directed by Mark Chaves