Floyd stresses unity at meeting

The Rev. Ronnie Floyd, senior pastor of Cross Church in Northwest Arkansas, spoke about racial unity and reconciliation on Tuesday at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.

According to a news release, Floyd was a guest speaker at the state’s annual baptist convention meeting this week, and went and at the invitation of Marshall Blalock, president of the state Baptist convention and pastor of Charleston’s First Baptist Church.

“We need to stop letting our nation define who we are,” said Floyd on Tuesday. “… We are not black churches, we are not not white churches, we are not Latino churches, we are not Asian churches, we are not Native American churches — we are the church of Jesus Christ.”

Floyd prioritized racial reconciliation during his time as head of the Southern Baptist Convention, and has worked with the mostly black National Baptist Convention to build unity, according to the release.