A Melting Pot Church

 The Lord spoke a word to me this morning. It is the term Melting Pot. He made it clear to me that the Door church in San Antonio is in a real sense a melting pot church.

The idea of a melting pot as it applies to people is summed up in this definition.

"The melting pot theory has been used to describe societies that are formed by an assortment of immigrant cultures that eventually produce new hybrid social and cultural forms. The melting pot theory holds that, like metals melted together at great heat, the melting together of several cultures will produce a new compound, one that has great strength and other combined advantages."

Our church is made up of many different kinds of people. Some were saved here, others were saved somewhere else. Some are native to this area, others came from somewhere else. We have Spanish speakers and those who cannot speak Spanish. We have blacks, whites, Hispanics, and who knows what else. But we all are joined together by a bond of the Holy Spirit and by our common faith in Jesus Christ. And by committing to this church we become different people than we were before coming here.

One thing about a melting pot is that it takes heat to make something new out of different ingredients. And it takes skill, both from the pastor and from the saints. As I have lived here I have noticed how God is forming something new out of dissimilar ingredients that have been melted together. The result is a church that is bigger and stronger than any of us would be on our own.

Some churches are small and stagnant simply because they are too narrow minded and too narrowly focused on only one group of people. They only want a certain race or a certain language or certain political ideas or who live in a certain part of town. Growth and influence comes with a willingness to embrace people who are different than you.

The word for today is Melting Pot. This is something that has built this church and this is something that will continue to build this church.