Diversity

I was considering today, that our faith does not lead us to seek after diversity, but to embrace the common ground which ignores inconsequential differences altogether.

Think about that for a moment.

"For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:27-28, nasb)

It is not that we learn to live with, or tolerate, our differences, but that we learn that they no longer have meaning... as if they didn't even exist any longer.

In this day of "NEW" strategies, and gurus of church growth who continuously seem to be re-answering the question of how to reach a new and diverse generation (as if it were the first time that differential ever existed), the Scripture simply points out that diversity no longer exists in Christ.

It may be just my perspective, but I have found too often that I have been led by the modern movement to ask what people want to hear, and how they want to hear it; rather than seeking God for what He wants to say, and how He wants to say it.

As I preach and teach each week, and the fog clears from a generation of relativism, the cross remains ever constant. The same cross which held our Lord on Golgotha, which led the lives of the Apostles, the devotion of the Saints to come, and the church of our God and Savior even to this day.

It is a clarion call to let go of the nonsense agendas of modern relativism, and to embrace the ancient, always relevant Gospel of Jesus Christ... what God wants to say, the way God wants to say it... the way He said, "I love you."

When a person enters a worship service, it is what they are seeking, no-matter their race or socio-economic strata... somewhere within themselves they have sensed their own inadequacies and have come to see what God might have for them. Far be it from us that we hide God's grace behind modern strategies and "enlightenment."

Diversity... it is one of the things simply washed away by the cross. In the end, we are all simply confessed and forgiven sinners who have committed to serve the Christ who saved us, and nothing else seems to matter any more.

Consider it... and may the peace of the Cross of Christ invade your soul!

Pax Christi,

John