Birds of the Same Feather
You know you’ve come across the genuine article of Christianity when you find people that are genuinely committed to each other in spite of otherwise divisive differences.
Listen to biblical scholar Don Carson of Trinity Divinity School: “What binds us [as Christians]…is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself.”
The Gospel produces something that the world cannot. The world naturally congregates according to the principle of “birds of the same feather flock together”. However, in the gospel a genuine universal humanity is created, so that birds of remarkably different feathers begin to flock together.
Does your faith in Christ make you want to love other Christians, regardless of how different they are from you? Such love is not only unusual but also the mark of a person captivated by the Gospel.
Something to think about from “The Kingdom Perspective”.
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.
~Galatians 3:26-29
