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Who Are We? We are all created human beings, created in the very image of God. Genesis 1:26-27 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God’s compassion and love for you and the whole human race is so great that he allowed is one and only begotten Son; Jesus, to lay down His life for us all, with no animosity toward any race, color or creed, whether Jew, Gentile or any other. His love had no boundaries for us “that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life”. In this there was and is no partiality for He is “the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe”, likewise neither should we. For if we do, we discriminate against our brothers and sisters even as James questioned us in doing so “have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?”, but rather we should“love your neighbor as yourselves”. Christ dying for us in our place, for the forgiveness of our sins, brought the means by which we can tear down division and discrimination for “he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility”. Christ’s new covenant to all humanity is that “you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another….being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you”. Therein is our peace and joy; to be found, held onto and shared with everyone in the truest form of God’s image, the internal image of heart, soul and love that Christ exhibited for us all and to which the Holy Spirit beckons us to return to. Pastor Jerry Photo by Inga Gezalian on Unsplash
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