Sublime

This struggle for reconciliation is not going to be won in the streets. It’s going to be won by believers in Jesus Christ who choose to live out the truth of the gospel. It’s going to be won in the hearts and minds of men, women, boys, and girls who choose to believe that our 99.9 percent oneness trumps our .1 percent differences.

Jesus Christ said long ago. In His inaugural address, He spelled out how His community of followers were to understand themselves. With characteristic insight, He asserted that “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?” (Matthew 5:13).

We become most productive by putting others first, not ourselves.

What is your part?

If we reduce Christian community to sexual relationships and the nuclear family, we are utterly failing to deliver on biblical ethics.

• I am willing to be a true peacemaker,

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There is one mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5), and it is not the pastor or his church programs.

My friend, the opportunity has come. The need is here. We live in a post-Christian culture proudly riding a landslide away from the truth. And swept in the landslide are millions—billions—of people speeding toward a Christless eternity.