This message is central to the gospel itself. Gray walks us through Scripture, showing us the heart of God - how God from the beginning envisioned a reconciled, multiethnic family in loving community, reflecting His beauty and healing presence in the world.
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In his new book, How to Heal Our Racial Divide: What the Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, About Racial Reconciliation, popular Bible teacher and pastor Dr. The good news is that the Bible has a lot to say about how to heal our persistent racial divides. He longs to see hurts healed and wrongs corrected and to see trust replace distrust. Why must everything be so black and white? Like many of us, Derwin Gray is weary of the racial divide in our society. Help us to pursue healing and reconciliation, knowing that You desire unity in the body of Christ. Thank You for destroying our sin and redeeming our pain, turning it into something beautiful and useful for Your Kingdom. Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death” ( Ephesians 2:15-16, NLT).Īs one body in Christ, may we be reconciled to God and with each other, and may any hostility be “ put to death” ( Ephesians 2:16, NLT).ĭear God, thank You for never wasting anything in our lives. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups. “He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations.
He doesn’t stop there - Paul goes on to explain how Christ unites us to form His beautiful, multiethnic Church:
He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us.” ( Ephesians 2:14) “For Christ himself has brought peace to us. How could a pharisaical Jewish nationalist like Paul once was, racist toward pagan Gentiles, write these words from Ephesians 2:14, our key verse, about Christ uniting Jews and Gentiles? In our racially divided world, Jesus can redeem our pain and transform us into vessels that heal our racial divide.
Through the mystery of His loving providence, He uses our backgrounds and life experiences to re-create us into His ambassadors of reconciliation. I’m grateful our God doesn’t waste anything - the good, the bad or the ugly. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us.” Ephesians 2:14 (NLT)
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