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MARRIAGE is WORK | Tim Ross on DIVORCE in CHURCH, CHEATING, & more | The Basement w- Tim Ross #062

The Basement with Tim Ross

CHAPTER

How to Be Intentional About Going After People

"We have to, we have to normalize the conversations around being intentional about going after people," he says. "If it's 98.7% white, if you want diversity, be intentional about it ... Then be unapologetic."

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Speaker 1
I don't even know if Baha'i Faith is Indian. I'm just freestyling. Please forgive me if I've messed up the face. I'm only a part of one.
Speaker 4
I
Speaker 1
just, we have to, we have to normalize the conversations around being intentional about going after people. I've talked about this when we came anytime a white church says, how do we brother, how do we become more diverse? I'm like, well, you can't get chocolate milk unless you add
Speaker 4
chocolate. Hire a black dude.
Speaker 1
Well, that just seems disingenuous. We were
Speaker 3
trying to organic. We want to organically just kind of have diversity and no, ain't no black people within
Speaker 4
freaking 50 miles of your
Speaker 2
church. This is Prosper, Texas, dude.
Speaker 4
I think you're
Speaker 1
going to have to import.
Speaker 6
Oh man.
Speaker 1
You're going to have to import somebody because I don't think it's going to happen organically. If it's 98.7% white, if you want diversity, be intentional about it. Then be unapologetic, but understand, I have a friend of mine on, I'll just say he's on the East Coast. I won't say where. He became the worship pastor of a church and 200 families left the same Sunday. The day he was announced was the last time the lead pastor saw 200 of the families that went to his church because he hired a black worship pastor. Now, if that don't tell you how some people's hearts are full of dead men's bones, I don't know what does, but what is your target target audience? You better be ready because
Speaker 4
I think some of y'all.

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