
| Glory Temple Holiness Church "Where the Spirit of the Lord Resides" 3701 #106 Esters Irving, Texas 75038 972-255-2299 Exodus 40:34 "Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. |
| WE EMBRACE DIVERSITY |
| We Embrace Diversity God must love diversity He made plants that are the same species different. Some are tall, some are leafy, and some are flowers. Even the colors are different red, yellow, pink and white are the different colors of flowers. He is not the God of an assembly line creation, but the God who loves and appreciates the differences. We want Glory Temple to reflect the Kingdom, welcoming and ministering to all people. "I believe God loves assortment. All His plants are different. God made us this way and loves us for our uniqueness. He created our uniqueness for His own purposes. "We are God's salad; there are all different vegetable and fruit you can put in a salad. Each has there own unique flavor; each serve it purpose for God’s salad. Everything you put in the salad was planted by the God and together they become a wonderful taste. Also, we are unique flowers that grown together His garden. I pray that He enjoys visiting His gardens on Sunday mornings. And I hope He whistles in His heart to the songs we are singing to Him." The Kingdom of God has the young and old, male and female, and representatives from every nation and people. "Did you ever wonder why there is so much variety within the human race? Or what the purpose of it is? How much simpler things would be if we all spoke the same language and behaved in generally the same way. ...It is our conviction that God planned the great variety of race and culture among humans. His creation is a beautiful in its variety. "Cultural diversity is one of its most obvious forms of love. God wanted people to scatter over the earth. He undoubtedly knew that as they did so they would develop diverse customs and languages, even as it happens in the world today. Prejudice is not God's way. "It passes judgment on other cultures and says, 'My ways are better.' Prejudice is sin, for it idolizes what is only human and it looks with disdain upon other humans who are created in the image of God." "So why do people differ? "Racially - because God created humans with the biological capability to produce tremendous variety and commanded them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. "Culturally - because God created humans in His image and commanded them to subdue His varied and complex creation. In so doing, they quite naturally developed a variety of cultures. "Linguistically (which is part of a culture) - because they didn't want to scatter around the earth and so God, in a single act, gave men a variety of languages. "Why do people differ? God want it this way and it is beautiful. Let's rejoice with God in the riot of diversity." Let rejoice in the beauty of Holiness” |
| The Glory Temple Holiness Church aim is to encourage and support the diversity in our community and to cooperate in outreach and service to our community. |