In Christ
Colossians 3:11 “In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.”
God intended for His body, the church, to display the great diversity that exists among all the cultures and ethnicities of the globe. Our Lord did not come to save just one nation- no, He came to save His chosen from every nation and tongue on the planet.
Our task is to extend this message of grace and love everywhere we go.
Ethnic partiality, like any form of partiality, is a sin. Anytime God’s people begin to give credence to the cultural snobbery that looks on themselves as better than other’s it is an affront to God’s very nature. God does not look on it and bless it.
Sadly, American evangelicalism and individually, we as believers, have sometimes fallen prey to this trap of Satan.
Having said that, it is also true that certain forces at work in our country at this time are trying to sow seeds of greater division between people and exploit that division for their own ends.
These cultural Marxists are trying to nurture unrest in our churches by claiming that evangelicalism is poisoned by its “whiteness”.
They assert that this whiteness is a latent form of white supremacy and that it taints our churches and discredits our message.
They also assert that this “evil” asserts itself in a toxic masculinity that believes in the repression of women. They then tag sexual identity and economic disparities into the equation.
This charge is serious and needs to be answered. Over the next two weeks we are going to address some of the issues that the deconstruction project raises about evangelicalism and show that despite its warts and pimples evangelicalism has a long history of standing with those who are oppressed and marginalized.
American evangelicalism is under attack- cultural forces are seeking to erode its influence. We need to be armed and ready.
The churches motto is the same as that of the American special operations community: De Oppresso Liber (to free the oppressed). May it be so with us.
Because of grace,
Tim
