Faith in God is the answer to the identity crisis
Part 3: We build securely on the foundation through our unity in Christ
In my late teens and early twenties, as I completed the initial stage of my adult spiritual formation, I had taken to heart that most revolutionary, radical sentence in the bible – Galatians. 3.28: “In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, slave nor free, for all are one in Christ Jesus”. From that moment, all obstacles or temptations raised by racism, sexism or any other status in life had been settled. We are all one. I don’t need any other argument. If I say this one sentence is sufficient to establish that we are all members of one family because we are all children of the one God, then that would be stupendously wonderful. Yet this sentence says even more than that. Conflict can exist even within families, but this one statement is establishing that whatever difference you might consider, whatever possible cause for hatred, competition, or contempt, it is overridden by the unifying love of Christ. Christ loves me. The proof is there in his death for me on the cross. But I cannot take this gift to heart without acknowledging that he also loves you, and you, and everybody, and that he died even for love of the one I might consider my worst enemy. The worth of Christ’s love is so ultimate that it cuts across any and all potential division. I cannot be against anyone for whom Christ is for.
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