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T
he large sanctuary is dimly
lit, all skin tones blended
in shadows in the intimate
atmosphere of the OneRace OneDay
Summit. Singer Montell Jordan
worships with a team of musicians
on the darkened stage and their
rollicking melodies and rhythms
become an anthem as hundreds
of voices join together to declare:
“There’s an army rising up, There’s
an army rising up, to break every
chain, break every chain.” The mood
in the room is electric, the sense
of unity and common purpose is
palpable, and the focus is clear: it is
time for the church to rise up to be
a voice of clarity in the confusion
of these times. The 300 pastors and
ministry leaders gathered in the
room sense the uniqueness of this
moment. A pastor from the platform
humbly notes, “I have never been to
a meeting like this before.” Brothers
and sisters in Christ, black and white,
Democrat and Republican, Baptist
and Pentecostal. Gathered together
under one banner: the Lordship of
Jesus Christ. The holy hush of the
Presence of God is in the room, and pastor challenged other white pastors
a realness of talk and presentation to lead the way in confronting apathy
show that this isn’t just another and passivity. This is the real deal,
reconciliation meeting where people and leaders’ testimonies began to
do the talk, say the prayers, and go birth faith in the room. Where could
home and live as they
this faith lead? If
did before. This is
OneRace Movement
something different. Is
has its way, it will be
it the real thing?
to the top of Stone
A black pastor shared
Mountain and beyond.
his journey out of
The
OneRace
skepticism into hope.
OneDay
Summit,
O n e R a c e
hosted by OneRace
Movement is an
Movement
was
organization leading
in many ways a
the way in confronting
culminating moment for the church division in the church and the deeper
across Atlanta. It was a first-fruit issues of the heart as it invites
of decades of prayer of pastors pastors and leaders to humbly begin
and righteous men and women of to seek to become the fulfillment
faith who have held
of the final prayer
the line, laboring in
that Jesus prayed
prayer and practice for
over His followers:
A white pastor
a united church. But to challenged other white that they would be
the pastors gathered
one. OneRace gets
on March 22, in the pastors to lead the way its name from the
grand story of God’s in confronting apathy
Biblical
Scripture
and passivity.
dream for Atlanta,
in Acts 17:26: “and
this event was merely
[God] made from one
a stepping stone to
man every nation of
the greater things yet to come. The men, to dwell upon all the face of the
thoughts of reconciliation and revival earth.” OneRace Movement believes
hung like glorious possibilities in that a church united across racial,
the air as black and white pastors denominational, and political lines is
stood together side-by-side, sharing the only thing that can heal a divided
the beauty and healing found in the and broken nation. According to their
authentic friendships developed website, “through prayer and fasting,
through OneRace’s intentional, relationship
and
collaboration,
multi-cultural pastors’ prayer groups. OneRace exists to displace the spirit
A black pastor shared his journey
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out of skepticism into hope. A white
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