NASHVILLE — Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in California said that revival in America will never happen unless the Church is willing to address and fight racial prejudice, which he referred to as the most “common sin” in the world.
There’s a theme in Scripture that the Church often ignores, Warren said during a sermon delivered Tuesday at the National Religious Broadcasters’ 75th annual convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and that is that God wants His children to get along.
“We’re not real good at that one,” he said. “Friends, we’re failing at unity. The Church is more divided, more polarized, there are more tribes, and more splattered, more fractured, than ever before.”
Warren shared how throughout his life and ministry, his “mentor,” evangelist Billy Graham, insisted there be unity.
“Not only did Billy Graham insist all of his crusades be integrated with every kind of ethnic background, he also sat everyone at the table. He took Catholics and Orthodox and fundamentals and evangelicals and Calvinists and charismatics, and he put them all on the stage,” Warren said. “God has…
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