Download LifeDate Summer 2023
by Pastor Michael Salemink
Father Abraham had many sons. Daughters, too. I am one of them and so are you.
Race has no basis in science. For that matter, it has no place in Christianity either. Only because of sinfulness do we compare and compete with each other at all. In that way we are genetically related, no matter where we come from or what we look like. But skin color makes a particularly silly criteria for determining anything about humanity.
Every member of our species is descendant of Adam and offspring of Eve. And God Himself creates, redeems, and calls every human life.
“And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place” (Acts 17:26).
Appearance doesn’t establish the worth of a person any more than age, ability, or origin does. The Gospel of Jesus Christ positively celebrates diversity and abundance.
“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes” (Revelation 7:7).
With the hope of receiving each neighbor as gift and the joy of treating one and all as privilege, who has room or time for racism?
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28).