The one thing I have had to get used to since moving to Australia is school uniforms.  On any school day the streets are dotted with colour as each school has different uniforms which the students wear.   Neil Cole writes:  "The days of wearing uniforms in church are gone.... At one time, when you went to church everyone wore clothing of the same color and style as they led worship in a service.

Today, not only will the styles of clothing differ; so will the kinds of people." (Church 3.0, p. 40)   Cole is right.  There is a growing diversity with the kinds of people who attend our churches.   But the question is raised:  are our churches keeping pace with our changing culture?

Cole continues:  "Postmodernism was born in cities amid growing diversity.  It acknowledges and values the diversity of a world that gets smaller every day thanks to technology, trade, and people migration.  The modern mind-set valued tolerance, but tolerance is not enough for the postmodern who needs diversity. 
"For postmoderns, a meeting that is all Caucasian or all African American[or insert any other people group (SIC)] is suspect and not inviting.  They want more than tolerance of others; they seek an embrace of differences, valuing the beauty in difference." (p. 40)

I love the picture given to us by the apostle John, the picture around the throne in heaven, of human beings "from every tribe and language and people and nation." (Revelation 7:9-10; cf. 5:9)   Here is a picture of a gathering of United Nations, a heavenly gathering all united in worship of the Lamb who was slain, the Lord Jesus. 
This is the church of the future, the church of eternity!   Postmoderns need this kind of diversity.  How many of our churches reflect this?  What can we do to foster a growing diversity?