One in Christ

“Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.” – Colossians 3:11 The church is God’s way of modeling His Kingdom to the world. We often reduce it to cool worship, a fancy building, and great preaching — but that misses the point entirely. The body of believers exists to bring the Lord’s heart to earth and demonstrate, in action, the values of our Savior. In a society fractured by prejudice, the church is the only true hope for reconciliation and healing. The world Jesus was born into had its own deep racial divisions. Jews and Samaritans shared ethnic roots yet harbored bitter hatred for one another. The Greeks and Seleucids brought gifts to the Hebrew world but also cultural clashes that cut against their values.  Then there were the Romans, occupying Israel and despised just