But again ... the Church does not separate. People do that on their own.
Again, a church being open to anyone isn’t the point. Just about any church describing itself as Christian will be. And on people separating themselves, I’m sure you know that just about every group that has gone to an area of the U.S. has tended to stay together to some extent, especially initially. There are good reasons for that that I don’t think I need to get into, but the point is that it is understandable that black people coming North, for example, would tend to choose to live by each other. But that self-segregation at the beginning can turn into a problem when into the picture come things like racial fears and beliefs, such as over interracial relationships, the possibility of unrest as there was in the sixties, and prejudices such as that a race is inferior, as well as differences in faith.