To be or not to be

The gospel is not passive it’s active and ferocious with grace. Ferocious about seeing the “image of God” on each man reconciled back to its creator through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Racial diversity is never the goal Christ is. But can someone tell me how and why we limit ourselves to thinking and believing that one ethnicity can truly reflect and exalt the name of Jesus Christ. Now we will not say that openly but our lives reflect the thing we believe. Why are we comfortable with passively worshiping and living amongst one ethnic group of believers when our surrounding city and region clearly represents a mix. The picture is Christ and as ludicrous as this sounds if we were to sit down and sculpt a body based off of the majority of Christians mindsets we would produce a body made up of all toes, hands, mouths or feet, there would be no balance and it would look awful. My friends this is what we live and the world is seeing and awful view of the Savior.

Even the cities urban and suburban were not created passively but actively. So if we are in an area that has a myopic view of the creator fleshed out in our social constructs the excuse of “I welcome whats around me” is weak and not Christ centered. If Christ took the passive attitude, that most of us take when it comes to this issue, with our sin, we would all be condemned. But he didn’t he passionately and actively pursued the reconciling of man to the Father in obedience to the father and we are called to reflect the same mission.

The first century church blew people away with the mix in their “congregations” not because they pursued diversity but they pursued Jesus everywhere it was active and not selective. The first century church does not have to be a relic that is viewed as the past of what could have been. We can be the church that blows people away because of the way we pursued Christ. Let’s pick up that mantle and be the church the world marvels at. We tend to like what we like, and pursue Jesus where we want, not were he calls even at the expense of Him. Throw diversity out the window but in order to be that church, the church we must be humble enough to say that our respective ethnicity’s and ideologies can’t maximize Christ beauty. Sadly that is an admission that might not come until we see him face to face (Revelation 5). But until then we must preach the polarizing truth of Christ which claims the eye, hand, foot etc. need each other (1Corinthians 12:12-27).

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