What is the Ground of our Unity?
On Pentecost we saw that the Holy Spirit united many believers from different ethnicities and nations as one. A major work of the Holy Spirit is uniting us across diversity, working towards that day when those from every nation and tribe and language will stand before the throne of God in worship (Revelation 7:9). The Spirit wants to open wide the doors of the church and welcome in people from all sorts of diverse backgrounds: diversity of age, of skin color, of nation, of gender, of socioeconomic status, of education level, of political affiliation, etc. We believe that God intentionally created His world with vast diversity because he knows that creation is more beautiful when it encompasses all the many colors of the rainbow. Diversity of mountains and valleys, land and sea, desert and rainforest, it all adds to the beauty of God's world. Often when I preach from the Bible I have to talk about how what the Bible teaches is co...