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Close your books and put them under your desk, please. It's time for a pop quiz. This is especially directed at all the evangelical readers out there. Are you ready? Here goes. The quiz is only one question long, so it should be a breeze!
Q: Up until quite recently, Americans, especially Christians, considered the mixing of the races to be a wicked sin. In most areas of the country, race mixing was outlawed explicitly with statutes against interracial marriage and adoption, and in the places where it was legal, it was considered to be extremely immoral. Christians stood firmly against race mixing, and called integration a communist plot to destroy America. But most Americans and Christians today are of the opposite opinion. They not only fully approve of racial integration, they condemn those who disapprove as wicked, evil people. We have learned a better way, and our neighborhoods and churches are filling up with interracial families. So here's the question - who was the prophet who showed us the error of our ways, who led us out of the wilderness of hateful, monoracial, segregated families and churches? Here's a few clues:
He railed against the churches of his day for their sins of racism and segregation.
He and his wife were the first white couple in Indiana to adopt a black child.
He's also the man who invented the term "rainbow family" to describe interracial "families" like his own.
What's that? You have no idea? Even with these great clues?
That's a real shame. Every evangelical should be acquainted with one of the founders and pioneers of modern day Christianity. It's even more unbelievable that you don't know who I'm talking about because he was all over the news a few days ago. I guess home schooling isn't everything it's cracked up to be.
You give up?
OK.
A: The Apostle of Modern Christianity, the 20th century John the Baptist, the man who invented the term "rainbow family" which most Christians today aspire to having, was none other than The Reverend Jim Jones.
You know, that Jonestown guy?
Guyana?
Don't drink the kool-aid?
Hello....?!
Yep, that Jim Jones. He and his wife were the first white couple in Indiana to adopt a black child, nearly 50 years ago, and he invented the term "rainbow family."
Gosh, I wonder why more Christians aren't aware of the great works of this man who had such a profound impact on modern Christianity, who helped lay the foundations of modern evangelicalism. He's like today's John Calvin or Martin Luther. He was a prophet, a lonely voice in the wilderness who confronted the church with its wicked sins. He cried aloud and spared not when it came to denouncing racism and hate. You'd think preachers would be talking about him all the time.
Weird.
Close your books and put them under your desk, please. It's time for a pop quiz. This is especially directed at all the evangelical readers out there. Are you ready? Here goes. The quiz is only one question long, so it should be a breeze!
Q: Up until quite recently, Americans, especially Christians, considered the mixing of the races to be a wicked sin. In most areas of the country, race mixing was outlawed explicitly with statutes against interracial marriage and adoption, and in the places where it was legal, it was considered to be extremely immoral. Christians stood firmly against race mixing, and called integration a communist plot to destroy America. But most Americans and Christians today are of the opposite opinion. They not only fully approve of racial integration, they condemn those who disapprove as wicked, evil people. We have learned a better way, and our neighborhoods and churches are filling up with interracial families. So here's the question - who was the prophet who showed us the error of our ways, who led us out of the wilderness of hateful, monoracial, segregated families and churches? Here's a few clues:
He railed against the churches of his day for their sins of racism and segregation.
He and his wife were the first white couple in Indiana to adopt a black child.
He's also the man who invented the term "rainbow family" to describe interracial "families" like his own.
What's that? You have no idea? Even with these great clues?
That's a real shame. Every evangelical should be acquainted with one of the founders and pioneers of modern day Christianity. It's even more unbelievable that you don't know who I'm talking about because he was all over the news a few days ago. I guess home schooling isn't everything it's cracked up to be.
You give up?
OK.
A: The Apostle of Modern Christianity, the 20th century John the Baptist, the man who invented the term "rainbow family" which most Christians today aspire to having, was none other than The Reverend Jim Jones.
You know, that Jonestown guy?
Guyana?
Don't drink the kool-aid?
Hello....?!
Yep, that Jim Jones. He and his wife were the first white couple in Indiana to adopt a black child, nearly 50 years ago, and he invented the term "rainbow family."
Gosh, I wonder why more Christians aren't aware of the great works of this man who had such a profound impact on modern Christianity, who helped lay the foundations of modern evangelicalism. He's like today's John Calvin or Martin Luther. He was a prophet, a lonely voice in the wilderness who confronted the church with its wicked sins. He cried aloud and spared not when it came to denouncing racism and hate. You'd think preachers would be talking about him all the time.
Weird.
