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Mississippi Cop Looks for New Church
Aug. 25th, 2006 12:17 pmThe police officer says there are good people at Fellowship Baptist, and the Bible was preached there.
However, "You see, my best friend is a black man," he said. "I wouldn't be comfortable going to a place where I couldn't ask my best friend to go to church with me."
Hardy says he knows there are still a lot of folks who are not comfortable with people from other races, there is still a lot of holdover from the past, there is still a lot of fear.
"But that's not what Christ died for," he said. Jesus' death and resurrection "is supposed to be a uniting force, not a separating thing."
-- Charity Gordon in the Northwest Mississippi Daily Journal, cited by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
prester_scott. The trouble started when a twelve year old child of mixed race accepted Christ, and the church wouldn't accept him. The pastor, aged 72, quit in disgust. So did the cop. Not the kind we too often read about from down there.
However, "You see, my best friend is a black man," he said. "I wouldn't be comfortable going to a place where I couldn't ask my best friend to go to church with me."
Hardy says he knows there are still a lot of folks who are not comfortable with people from other races, there is still a lot of holdover from the past, there is still a lot of fear.
"But that's not what Christ died for," he said. Jesus' death and resurrection "is supposed to be a uniting force, not a separating thing."
-- Charity Gordon in the Northwest Mississippi Daily Journal, cited by
prester_scott. The trouble started when a twelve year old child of mixed race accepted Christ, and the church wouldn't accept him. The pastor, aged 72, quit in disgust. So did the cop. Not the kind we too often read about from down there.