Trip to Scotland Episode 3: On Pots and Melting (3/26/06)

I’ve heard it said that the imagery of a melting pot is highly offensive in America (it might be the only thing I learned in my Culture and Ministry class). The idea that each person will supposedly lose his/her identity in favor of something more…generic, has met with resistance. To be honest, it’s not something I think about very much when I’m in Minneapolis. I mean, sure, I live in a part of the city where things are somewhat more racially/ethnically diverse. But really, I mostly hang out with white people, I attend a church full of white people and I work at a school of mostly white people.

As I look around, there is a fascinating level of diversity here in the Amsterdam airport. Young, old, black, white, Asian, Indian. I probably heard ten different languages just on my way from the bathroom to gate D2. What a fun place to watch people. Although, I’ve been careful not to do the Minnesotan ‘smile at everyone you see’ thing—I think it freaks people out.

Anyway, the reason for writing about this is I think it’s a pretty good view of what heaven will be like. What a day—when people of every tribe, tongue and nation gather before the Lamb in worship. We will represent a beautiful spectrum of the Creator’s artistic talent in our diversity, as we find uniformity in our mission of worshipping.