Southern Baptists Work to Battle Racial Divide

The Southern Baptist Convention has wrapped up a summit on racism in America.

The summit in Nashville was titled the Gospel and Racial Reconciliation. Speakers talked about the evils of racial divisions and said they were hurting the Christian church and faith.

The SBC is hoping to bring healing by confronting its past support for slavery and segregation.

Rev. Fred Luter, Jr., who became the first African-American president of the SBC in 2012, called the summit "amazing." He said he fully expects positive change to come out of it.

Meanwhile, two congregations in Dallas took a step to bridge that racial divide on Sunday.

"How do we love each other if we don't know each other?" asked Rev. Jeff Warren of Park Cities Baptist Church.

"I've got to make sure I'm cultivating relationships across racial lines and I don't just stay in my comfort zone," Rev. Bryan Carter, with Concord Church, said.

The two pastors traded pulpits, putting a black preacher in a mostly white church and a white preacher in a mostly black church.

They're hoping their actions will speak even louder than their words.

"In Christ there's no race, there's no black or white, or ethnicity or nationality. This is a global movement," Warren said.