Before we went to the Philippines with OMF we had to go to an orientation course in Toronto. One of the things that we had to do was visit a Chinese church where the service was in Mandarin. When we arrived we were about 8 white people in a church of 400 - 500 Chinese. We were warmly welcomed and every one wanted to make us as comfortable as possible. When they read the scripture the lady in front of us turned around with a Chinese Bible and pointed to the Scripture as she gave us the Bible. It was in Chinese, we couldn't understand a thing.
But it made me think again about walls. The Chinese were meeting as a separate group but the walls were not there. They were most welcoming and accommodating to us. We were treated as celebrities but truly they were the ones that should have been honoured. Walls aren't about having separate churches for different racial groups but it is when the people in those churches turn you away because you do not belong to their racial groups. This Chinese church truly understood the gospel.
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