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       This song by DC talk makes it into are Sermon in Song archive this week because of how it relates to the messages we have been hearing @ Connect on Wednesday nights. Over the course of several weeks now we have been learning about love, loving one-another, and understanding God’s love, and more specifically how it all fits into the Christian life.  Moreover this song was picked because it addresses a practical aspect of the type of love we are to share with one-another and the world as we witness of God’s love.

          In relation to our journey through the letter of 1^st John we have been reminded that “we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23 and the one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness ... [and we know God is the light] Thus it is the one who loves his brother [who] abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 1 John 2:9-10 Also we know the Lord Jesus said that the 2^nd greatest commandment was for one to love their neighbor as they would love themselves. Likewise, through the story of the good Samaritan we know the neighbor that commandment refers to is anyone, and that the call to love one-another extends across racial lines. Yet, as we all know we often fail miserably in that endeavor. Even, Christianity as a whole seems to fail at that endeavor, or has at least in the past. Thus the world is full of strife. Much of that strife is racial. Thus in line with the call of God’s word for us to love one-another let us remember we all have the same creator, the same God who provides our needs and controls our universe, and He is the one who will one day judge us all. Likewise let us remember we are all colored people and we have all made mistakes and we all depend on God’s holy grace to save us from our selves, sin, Satan's power and the destructive world system. So think about your cross cultural and racial relations and ask God to show you if you are really showing the lost and dying world His love and life saving truth!

Pardon me, your epidermis is showing, sir
I couldn't help but note your shade of melanin
I tip my hat to the colorful arrangement
Cause I see the beauty in the tones of our skin

We've gotta come together
And thank the Maker of us all

(chorus)
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place
We're colored people, and they call us the human race
We've got a history so full of mistakes
And we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace

A piece of canvas is only the beginning for
It takes on character with every loving stroke
This thing of beauty is

The passion of an Artist's heart
By God's design,

We are a skin kaleidoscope

We've gotta come together,
Aren't we all human after all?

(repeat chorus)

Ignorance has wronged some races
And vengeance is the Lord's
If we aspire to share this space
Repentance is the cure

 Well, just a day in the shoes of a color blind man
Should make it easy for you to see
That these diverse tones do more than cover our bones
As a part of our anatomy

(repeat chorus)

We're colored people, and they call us the human race
[Oh, colored people]
We're colored people, and we all gotta share this space
[Yeah we've got to come together somehow]
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted world
[Red and yellow, black and white]
We're colored people, every man, woman, boy, and girl
[Colored people, colored people, colored people, colored people, yeah]

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