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Songs about Diversity
Announcements
Great time at Reliance Round-Up!
I love singing songs with you guys.
If you want to help lead some songs for Youth Group would you come talk to me afterwards?
Review
Last week talked about 7 “evidences” about how being a Christian is actually good for you.
Which one stood out to you during the week?
Introduction
For this week I want to tell you a story.:
I moved here a year ago from a fairly large suburban city called Greeley, CO.
Greeley is mostly a blue-collar town.
Lots of workers in oil and gas, cattle production, farming etc.
We also have the highest gang per capita ration in the United States.
The story is, the Latin Kings and the Crips in L.A. migrated to Greeley because of the rising drug scene and eventually developed into two main gangs: The Nortenos and the Sorenos.
The Northies and the Southies.
Northies wore red, Southies wore blue.
They lived on the Northern and Southern Impoverished parts of Greeley.
Our family lived on the Southern side.
We lived close to a park near us.
At least twice, I’ve been approached by a group of Latino guys at that park.
Once, I was with Isaac, my oldest, and one of his friends.
The guy goes, “Yo!
I want to talk to you for a minute.”
“Yeah, what’s up man?” “Yo, me and the homies want to know if you love Jesus dawg and if we could talk to you about him for a minute.
We see you with these young dudes and we think it would be good for them to hear too.”
Guys, the church is not just a bunch of clean-cut do-gooders who have the same skin color and dress the same.
It’s made up of all kinds of people who at their root recognize their sin and repent and turn to Jesus.
What is Diversity?
Is Diversity good or bad?
Is Christianity against diversity?
Today, we often think of diversity as a kind of accepting and welcoming of “differentness” of others.
We have ideas of ethnic diversity, cultural diversity, gender diversity, and religious diversity among a ton of other kinds of diversity.
What are some reasons that people think Christianity is against Diversity?
Christianity is White, Western Religion (This is the focus of this evening)
Jesus is the only way to God (not many ways to God).
People think we are hateful and intolerant to gay and trans people.
(We will talk about this in another lesson).
Christianity is for all kinds of people from all kinds of places.
Christianity is for everyone.
Jesus Created Diversity
One of my favorite books in the bible is the gospel of John.
In particular I love how it starts.
Would someone please read John 1:1-5?
We know that “the Word” in this passage is Jesus.
Jesus himself was a brown-skinned middle eastern Jewish man.
All things were made through Jesus.
Diversity was created, therefore Jesus created diversity.
Man was made in his image and after his likeness Genesis 1:26-27.
Since God’s creation was originally “good” we can infer that diversity among people is good too.
The diversity that came from Adam and Eve came first from their creator, God.
This is something that everyone thinks about at some point in their life.
For good or bad, you look like your parents.
Even if you don’t think you do, your DNA says otherwise.
What was the bible passage we were memorizing for the mission trip?
Jesus bears the image of His father too, the invisible God.
Jesus Commands Love Across Differences
Turn with me in your bibles to John 4:4-26
In this passage, a Jew is speaking with an enemy of the Jews about finding salvation from Him, a Jew.
Jesus desires her to be saved, an enemy of his people and seeks her out when He could have just sought out more Jews for salvation.
He cares about all people.
Listen to these verses as well:
The Great Commission
Paul speaking to the Christians in Turkey.
The believers in glory/
The Roman empire didn’t believe in diversity.
They wanted all religions to syncretize, and end up worshiping the Emperor and their other deities.
They didn’t like how the Jews, and eventually the Christians would not worship their gods or participate in the sinful acts of their culture (that they saw as good!).
Cities and temples were destroyed because they would not align with Roman practices.
Christians would extend help to babies that were cast out, foreigners, and those who were impoverished, even amidst that kind of persecution.
“Them and Us”
Something we do as humans is we divide into groups.
Have you ever noticed that at your schools, often what will happen is your peers will group together based on an obvious point of identity.
How do you see people in your schools or lives group up?
Skin Color/Ethnicity
Music
Disability
Clothing
Rich
Smart
Funny
Good looking
You may not realize this yet, but Adults do the same things.
Most of the time, it’s these same categories too.
We like to make these sound more sophisticated by using the words “status” or “socioeconomics,” or whatever, but it’s really just the same divisions.
Some of these divisions are less serious than others, but the amount of harm done in the name of race is unbearable.
Slavery in America was horrendous.
Yes I just brought that up.
White men, many claiming to be Christians, cruelly enslaving black people to do their bidding.
Did you know though that despite the evil done by these white “Christians,” the faith of the slaves grew in Christ?
Here is what Frederick Douglas the famous black anti-slavery campaigner said:
I loved all mankind, slaveholders not excepted, though I abhorred slavery more than ever.
I saw the world in a new light, and my great concern was to have everybody converted.\
God worked in spite of sin, not because of sin, to bring slaves to salvation.
Today, black Americans that identify as Christians are 10% than white Christians and nearly half go to church every week while only.
1/3 of white Christians go every week.
Black women are statistically more likely to be Christians, white white men are more likely than others to be atheists.
The Bible is our basis for reconciliation and reunion across divisions, and especially racial divisions.
Jesus calls on every tribe, race and tongue to trust in Him for their salvation.
Our strive for unity shouldn’t be on the basis of how we look, but on the basis of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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