One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love

race as we know it today is mostly a social theory that was devised and refined over the centuries to serve the economic and religious goals of a majority culture, first in European territory, then later in America.

Corrie ten Boom’s story

We need to be awakened to the truth—God’s Truth.

in Acts 13:1 as an example: “Among the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch of Syria were Barnabas, Simeon (called ‘the black man’),

“Unconditional love that is always giving and impossible to take or be a taker. It devotes total commitment to seek your highest best no matter how anyone may respond. This form of love is totally selfless and does not change whether the love given is returned or not.”1

October 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV walked into an Amish schoolhouse carrying a weapon.

We have preached a gospel that leaves us believing that we can be reconciled to God but not reconciled to our Christian brothers and sisters who don’t look like us—brothers and sisters with whom we are, in fact, one blood.

My prayer is for God to hasten the day when every church in America is a multicultural church.

To forgive is divine. It makes us look like our heavenly Father.