Wow. Seeing some of the pictures in the haney thread prompted me to write this thread. I mean a banjo and accordians in the church? I am scared.
As a musician I have always known "Perfect Pitch" to mean when a banjo is thrown into a dumpster and does not hit any of the sides.
I shutter to think it was the andy griffith hour in some pentecostal churches in the early years. But to each their own.
My grandfather was accused of being a "n-word" lover because he had "Negro" music and was not fellowshipped because he had drums, piano, organ, choir, and in his words "the best music in town."
When he was up in years, his words to me were "Son, in those days the pentecostal Negros had the best music around and we WERE proud to be part of that even if we were not as dark". He would laugh as he thought of the looks on people's faces when they would come to on of the fellowships at his church. He said men would get up and preach against the "dangers of Negro music in the church". My grandfather said "God hates racism and it has not business in the church".
This was in the 40's and 50's. One night some men gathered outside to beat him up with ax handles for allows black folks to come to his church. He walked between them with their ax handles raised, went on to the parsonage, changed clothing, walked right back between them saying "Praise the Lord brothers" as he passed them. Their testimony was that when they tried to hit him, they seen an angel with a sword following my grandfather. Afterwards, they repented and made good Apostolics.
Racism is still an issue in the church. There are references to "Black Churches", "White Churches", "Hispanic Churches", "Korean Churches", etc when there should only be one reference to "God's church". I teach my children to describe a man of color the same way you would describe a white man. When we in the church describe some one
"Do you know bro Bill?"
"No I don't think so"
"He is the black man"
"OHHH yeah"
it should be something like this
"Do you know Bro Bill?"
"No I don't think so"
"He was the man wearing the orange tie sitting around the third row. His wife had the big white hat with the red rose in it"
"Ohhh Yeah"
We have come a long way but we still have a long way to go. Don't stop praying, believing, teaching, and preaching about this scourge of our society call racism. If we kill it in the church, we will have victory over it in our communities.
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