Racial Reconciliation

Thoughts on racial reconciliation:

We do not check our cultural identity at the door. We are fully what we were made to be, but we likewise do not cling to our racial identity as a spiritual life preserver that gives us our primary sense of identity.

We celebrate our cultural identity, for the sovereign God of the universe meticulously choreographed everything about us. This should be embraced and cherished.

The Gospel gradually transforms our identity so that Christ becomes the central-most part of who we are, and everything emanates from that reality. One of the most crucial ways that the Christian Church embodies the Gospel is in the unity of Christians who are different from one another-economically, culturally and racially. We become free by the power of the Gospel, while also demonstrating to the world that people who cannot live in love and unity outside of the Gospel can do so in Christ.

God created cultural groups uniquely and with their own "splendor" according to Revelation 21:24. Because God created such cultural distinctions, there is an almost unlimited resource at our disposal for learning about God and His majesty. One day we will experience God in His fullness, and understand in full the beauty and uniqueness of humanity. Until that time, His church is given the privilege of offering the world this sweet taste of Heaven.