We can only proceed with our destiny once we p-r-o-c-e-s-s our history. We won’t get anything done if we don’t talk about real issues and challenges. We do see color because God created it. Some say I don’t see color but walk on the other side of the street. Some say I don’t see color, but this statement is not made when people of color are NOT in the room. And by the way — white is a color.

Your social narrative defines how you see the world, i.e., what your parents told you, what your friends told you, and how they told you to interpret what you saw on television. This creates a lens through which you see everything. Sociology says we all identify ourselves by groups—each of us is in multiple groups. Each group we’re in defines how someone is like me.

In-group/out-group is how I define people who are like me or not like me—this begins with us versus them. We give in-group bias or preferential treatment to people who are like us. Out-group discrimination is when you don’t provide an in-group bias to people unlike you.

Here are simply nine ways we give in-group bias.

1. I am more comfortable with those like me.
2. I am more inclined socially to spend time with those like me.
3. I am more patient with those like me.
4. I give the benefit of the doubt quicker to those like me.
5. I express more grace when those like me make mistakes.
6. It is easier to communicate with those like me.
7. I will get along easier with those like me.
8. I am more willing to go out of my way to help those like me.
9. I possess more positive assumptions about those like me.

This is how we relate to people.  So, as soon as we see a person, we automatically associate assumptions. When you have a conversation with a person, regardless of what they are saying, you have two conversations, the first being an internal conversation about your assumptions. Do you challenge your assumptions — especially in light of God’s standards for human beings? In healing & deliverance ministry, these assumptions are called ungodly beliefs because they do not agree with God, His ways, and His principles.

People attach being racially offensive to being racist. You can be racially offensive and not be a racist. In this country, there is so much tension about race because of the centuries-long assumptions made and imposed upon people before getting to know them.  Footnote: from a healing & deliverance perspective, we all know that operating in any offense is the lowest form of spiritual immaturity. Did you know that people can feel the assumptions you assign to them without any words being exchanged?  

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For certain, the history of slavery and division assigns ungodly assumptions that carry through to this day. These assumptions are especially flagrant in the kingdom of God and its many churches. This is a stench in the nostrils of God. These ungodly assumptions formed, thought, taught, demonstrated, and passed down infiltrate the atmospheres of buildings, rooms, institutions, classes, and parks that shift the purpose and outcome of many daily activities.

Stop defending things in church that Jesus would not protect. Honor what we have in common. And know that love transcends the differences. But here’s the snag — most believers don’t know how to demonstrate or receive love. What will you do about your love deficiency and the church’s love deficiency where you live? – Miles MacPherson: