An award-winning famous actor is speaking out about his faith and says he has a vision for Christians that will unite and not divide.

Jamie Foxx believes that Christianity is being used as a "tool to divide" but that it doesn't have to continue. "I grew up in the church. I mean, church, every single day," Foxx says to Christian Post.

However, Foxx says growing up he didn't always see fellow church members representing Christ with compassion, acceptance, and love. “What I found odd though, the people that went to church treated me bad exactly when I would go on the other side of the tracks,” he recalled. “Those people that went to church and taught us the Bible called me n----a, right. Treated me bad, ran me across the tracks,” Foxx says.

“I think when that very religion, which is supposed to take us to a beautiful place, becomes a tool to divide, that's where you leave people sort of [disillusioned],” he says. That division is also racial Foxx says but he hopes it will change.

"Everyone here on the planet, if your religion is really real, should be able to stand under that umbrella."

The actor says his Grandmother taught him the most important aspect of his faith, which was that idea of the "umbrella of Christianity". He recalls his grandmother saying,"'I had to nurture them and pray for them, and let them know that I’m opening the umbrella of Christianity, which meant that everyone here on the planet, if your religion is really real, should be able to stand under that umbrella'," Foxx says.

With his faith background and his grandmother's teachings, he believes all should feel welcome no matter the race.

“I've always had this vision, and I've done it in certain things where I have people come to my house and we have church at my house, not shown on television or anything like that. But my idea is that at a certain point, black church, white church, Hispanic, everybody goes to church together,” he says.

Foxx is inspired by his daughter who has questioned the interactions she's had with religion. “My daughter had a hard time wrapping her mind around religion.

“When she was like 13,14, she said, ‘Dad, all you guys talk about is who's different and who isn’t. We don't want to do that.’ So I appreciate the young millennial who has a different mindset and is still attached to their faith because that's what we need. It needs to be integrated.”

Foxx hopes to one day have that vision come to life.