text & context - q&a with piper and chandler on ethnic diversity

i feel like what white churches - and won't it be a beautiful day if that term ever dies - that we talk a lot about racial diversity but we're still going to do things our way. and so we want different ethnic groups to join us as long as they like to worship to coldplay! and i dont think the black church has it figured out that much better - where they'll say they want diversity but at the same way it's our way! so all i know to do is to preach well, and to preach passionately, and then try to engage.

i struggle with the idea of hiring the token black guy - i know a lot of people have decided to go that way: 'well, if we could just hire a black guy an asian guy an american indian and on and on down the list then we'll get some diversity." i think there are some ways to that but what i wanna do is just preach and proclaim the death of an ethnocentric idea - i think if we're ever gonna make headway, though, tehre has to be some reform in how we view the songs we sing, how we view the music we use, how we - if there's ever gonna be - i think that's something the charismatics do better than us...

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piper: live in the city. (moses married a black woman! :D)