Did you know that Christians come in all colors? Why is there almost no diversity in your movies and programming?

I just watched the video "Andrew Murray: Africa for Christ". Amazing that there was no mention of the indigenous blacks and other captives ( slaves from Portuguese vessels and Asians) that were mobilized to serve the European colonizers. Murray was succesful in evangelizing the Dutch and other European settlers of the South African Cape, but ignored the non-whites who were apparently not worthy of his attention. .

Greetings to all, I believe not only I, but the LORD God, Himself, feel the injustice of not featuring all of His creators in this new Christian programming called Redeemed. There is already one Christian program that has excluded the diversity of nations from there shows. Why is it necessary to make another viewing with no diversity at all in it. How are we people of color suppose to truly feel wholehearted about a programming that has all but excluded them from the different episodes on Redeemed.

Is the European nation the only people that are Christians? When in fact, if one would only go back in history the Book that the LORD God, Creator, ELOHIM, did not even start with Europeans. I mean I just need some help with this!!!

I would love to support Redeemed. However, I truly need a great deal more of all nations in your television viewing. At this point I am not willing to donate to a platform that should be a beacon of light to this darken world.

I am a Nigerian, so clearly I am black.

Because this is the body of Christ, it would not end well if we begin to focus on skin color. Let's focus on the message about Christ Jesus, His love, His mercy, His goodness and surely His second coming and His judgement of all mankind, irrespective of the color of the skin of the messengers. Because the Holy Spirit of God chose men to write His Word (the Bible) not by color of their skin, but because they yeilded to Him.

Should we even see skin color, ours or others?

I think you misunderstand. I don't think God sees skin color. I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood. I am not. I was taught focus on the skin color and segregate ourselves from them. There was no animosity between us, there was no intention between us. It was a farming community and we all worked together and help each other out. Not to say there wasn't prejudice, but it was not a prejudice that made less of a man but more of one that recognized the differences and saw it as God's way of separating men. Being the rebel I am, I questioned that and grew out of it, and made friends of different colors.
I am conscious of people that have different skin tones, just like I am conscious of people with different color hair, or height, but that does not cause me to have a predefined opinion of them. If they as an individual are lurking around with no known reason or have a known record for theft, then of course you're going to try to protect your possessions from them regardless of skin color. Their skin did not make them a thief, my skin did not keep me from being one, it influenced my development, but I chose to test the values I was raised with against God's word and create my own principles from there.
I'm a perfect world there would be no predetermined characteristics for other ppl. There would be no attributes assigned by race, there would be no Napoleonic Complex, etc etc. To focus on one predetermined sweet of attributes

*set of attributes
...... immediately is where the wrong is. When I meet a person of a different race, my thoughts do not think about them being so, but who I am finding them to be. When I asked "should we see race", I mean we should take no more notice if it than hair color or feet size or bowleggedness. To continue to focus on attributes and not the value of each person individually only brings division and places importance, and therefore division, on things that should not be considered at all.

I'm not sure you're grasping the issue. I'm an African-American who was raised in a predominately White community until I was 11. Note that I did not say "racist" community. I said White community. The leaders and teachers did not set out to "separate colors" in their leading and teaching. It simply happened that way. And as a consequence, my mind was being programmed to believe that salvation was not for people like me. Or that Jesus did not die to save people like me. The sad thing is my belief was not unique to me. And the experience is not unique even today.
Yes, God did create people with different skin tones. And He loves them all. But more than that, He acknowledges them all. I strongly disagree with the thought that God does not see skin tones. He does. He sees His creation exactly as He made us. And we are all fearfully and wonderfully made in His sight. And believe it or not, every skin tone is represented in the "whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" of John 3:16. But when we find ourselves visually focusing on only one group or another, we use the lie that God doesn't see color and we continue to omit or neglect to include ALL of His children in the Gospel message. That's sad and dangerous, and it is not what Jesus would do. Again, because I was subconsciously being programmed to believe that salvation was not for people like me, I never bothered to take it seriously until I was almost 12. I could have died in my sins! And for the life of me I can't understand why this is so hard for Christians to understand! I would think that people who claim to be Christ-like would want EVERYone to feel that the Gospel message is for them. Instead, they (at least White Christians) feel attacked! Most of what you wrote about crimes and predefined opinions and characteristics and such has absolutely nothing to do with this thread. This thread is not an attack on Christians who happen to be White, or the predominately White community or church I grew up in. They were not racist then and they are not racist today. They were simply uninformed (for lack of a better word).
And by the way, at 11 we've moved to a more mixed community and attended a predominately Black church. And guess what was happening there? THAT'S RIGHT! Everything was focused on Black America! No Whites, no Hispanics, no Asians, no nothing exceptthe predominate race! Just like the church I grew up in! We talked to our mom about it, and she let us start going to our neighborhood Salvation Army for church, where it felt more like everyone was included.
All I'm trying to say in this thread is that we have got to stop making excuses and just do a better job of including the whole world in the Gospel message. And even if we use the lie that God does not see skin tones, remember that people do. And we risk sending out a different message than the one we intended. This is not a hard thing to understand. (From what I understand, RedeemedTV understood, and there are changes in the works.)

You are correct, I really don't understand, but I am trying. You made the comment, "The leaders and teachers did not set out to "separate colors" in their leading and teaching. It simply happened that way.". How did this happen, if the leaders weren't trying to separate, how was your "mind being programmed", was this something subconscious the leaders were doing, a conclusion you on your own, did it come from someone else trying to explain it? As to whether God sees skin color, of course, literally He does, but in His eyes, we are all the same, regardless.

My apologies. I thought I was clear about all of that. I was answering late at night (or early, early in the morning) so maybe I wasn't as clear as I thought. I'll try again.

I honestly believe that what the leaders and teachers were doing was what they knew, what they saw, how they grew up. They were in an all White world. And they had always been there. It naturally never crossed their minds that one day there would be a 5-member non-White presence in their midst. But there we were. And welcoming us there still did not promote a change in their visuals or music or learning materials. Not because they were being mean. They just weren't thinking that way. They had always been White, always seen White, and always did church and everything else in White (if that makes sense). Me? From the time I was born until I was almost 11, I saw mostly Black (since I was a kid and at home most of the time). When we went places around town (not much) I would see a few Hispanics, some Asians. But not many. But when I saw that White guy on the cross at church, or when I saw Him in videos, slides (remember those?), or learning materials bidding people to come to Him, none of them looked like me. Not even close. I'm seeing this from the time I'm able to understand what I'm looking at. Every Sunday and Wednesday. Naturally I just thought that was how things were. It never dawned on me to ask my parents about it. Heck, I didn't even have a question to ask them, because I was "subconsciously programmed" to believe that church was a nice place to go. But as far as that other Place with the guy on the cross, that was for the people who looked like Him. They never set out to purposely make me think that way. It was just a result not included ALL races in the Gospel message. And as a kid, what was I to think? It was all I ever knew. There was no other thought to think. Yes, in His eyes we are all the same. But no one ever told me that (or showed me that). In my kid eyes that spoke to my kid mind, I was different.

So that was all probably a poor attempt at explaning what my heart feels knowing that there are so many unchurched, unsaved people in the world who are searching for Jesus and they don't even know it. And meanwhile, there are Christians ready to present the Gospel message, but only in their race or color. It's easy for me to understand how dangerous that is. Simply because I was once on the receiving end. And I just can't help thinking how sad it would have been if I had died as that child. I would never have know the fulfillment that a life in Christ could be. I would never have known the joy of sharing the Christ I found with someone who was lost. I would never have known all He could be for me. And I don't want that to be the case for anyone of any age anywhere in the world.

Ah, I see now. I speak from another generation and a probably a much poorer and smaller environment. Our visuals were very limited, had we had them, I am sure they would have been very white. I can see how as a kid watching those things you could have drawn that conclusion. However, I was warned at an early age to never visualize what Christ or God loved like, to do so would create an idol, I never did, and still don't, our minds are unable to grasp the magnificence of God much less create an image of anything near His likeness. I don't remember ever thinking what color Christ was, church never discussed it. I think they all knew to open any can of worms that would generate a question, I would ask it and they didn't want their hypocrisy exposed. I can remember seeing other representations of Christ later and thinking how do they know what He looked like, my Bible says he was not attractive. Growing up, I never saw an ugly Jesus with masses of ugly ppl running to Him. So yes that clears that up. Thx