Does God care about race? Should Christians?
Within the past few weeks, we have seen racial tensions in the United States rise to the highest they have been in decades. I do not want to comment on who is right and wrong in these police involved shootings, but I do want to talk about a topic that I’m sure will come up. What role does race play in the church? Should we care as Christians? Does God see race? Well let’s take a minute and look to scripture to see how the church should be handling race. In the beginning God created man in His image (Gen 1:26-27). Notice this did not say one group of people or the other. Just man as humanity. We fell as mankind, but God so loved the WORLD that He gave His only son, that we would not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16). God does not show favoritism based on outward appearances (Deut. 10:17, Acts 10:34, Romans 2:11, Eph 6:9). We...