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If the references in your pastor's sermons, the books used in small groups, the resources passed between the laity, the music sung in worship, & even the reflection quotes in your worship bulletins are predominantly by White men, your church is promoting a truncated Christianity.
This communicates to those in the church that the real gatekeepers of orthodoxy - and those who are the only ones worth listening to - are White men. It says that authentic worship - and that which we should rightly emulate - originates from White men. It declares that the...
church properly belongs to, is led by, and influenced by White men. It says that women and people of color are properly always to be listeners, submitters, and passive bystanders in the church who should be grateful for the place they've been allotted by White men.
In contrast, Jesus' church is the epicenter of equity and diversity. Each part of the body is weak and incomplete in faith without all of the other parts, and we are called to mutually submit one to another while exercising our respective gifts in service to one another.
Even the optics of a diverse body in a monocultural church gravely misses the mark of what Jesus' church is supposed to be. When our churches communicate a centering on White men, there is no way we can rightfully and honestly say that we are being Christ-centered.
