social location or sexuality, rearedless of religious affiliation, our lives matter and we deserve to be protected by the laws of this land and there is a unique role for the church to play in modeling racial solidarity and christian unity around this particular truth and it s so much of a blessing to see black and white congregations coming together to do that. let s talk about that specific angle, pastor chris, because we know george o wood who heads the assemblies of god asked his congregations, his denomination to join with those in the church of god and cris, which is mostly african-american, joined in black lives matter citing first corinthians saying if one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it. in churches that are not majority african-american is this something part of the conversation? certainly should be. the gospel of jesus cris is part