![]() ![]() I’ve found in my own life that much of how I experience life is defined by what I make of the differences. This isn’t even just a relationship thing… this is a life thing. alright don’t all rush up here at once… please form an orderly line… hmm… This illustration went south real quick… huh… I had planned to illustrated how… our differences are a difference-maker … but having now made something completely foreign from my wife’s chocolate chip cookie… The differences aren’t the difference maker… but it’s what you make of the differences. (mix ingredients in a bowl) feel like I should have some cooking music on right now… (spotify) Okay let’s mix this up here… okay… now unfortunately I don’t have an oven so some cookie dough will have to do… Who like’s cookie dough? (taste it and cringe). (Guys can you bring up those ingredients…) I mean just look at this table church… all these different ingredients… it’s amazing what happens when they come together… allow me to illustrate…. Y’all are mean-mugging me so bad right now… and I knew you would… so I asked Jacky to pick up the different ingredients that are used to make these cookies… cuz I knew that you’d want me to make some for you. I feel like this delicious (cookie/brownie) is much like the analogy that Paul uses of the human body… cuz much like the human body analogy, this (cookie/brownie) illustrates so powerfully… what awesomeness can happen… when different parts…different ingredients… come together… Let me tell ya… diverse unity is delicious. I like to call Psalm 139 the scariest, yet most powerful prayer you can every pray… because here’s what it asks God to do: Before we get started today I want to open up with Psalm 139 and this is going to serve as our theme verse for the entire series. But the gospel beckons us to strive for racial unity.” And I wholeheartedly agree with that. I love what one pastor said, he said “Racial unity is not the gospel. Throughout this series I will not be speaking as an expert, but simply as a Christ-follower and the leader of this church who believes that this is a conversation with starting. The second thing I want to say is something you already know… I don’t have all the answers. And if you must form an opinion about the series, please wait till the end of the series… then shoot me an email… and I’ll forward it on to my wife. Today we’ll break the ice and today will serve more as a setup if anything… so with that said, please commit yourselves to each of these four weeks. Which is to say… this is really one sermon that’s gonna be broken up over 4 weeks. The first one is this: This is a sermon series. And there’s just a couple of things you need to know before we get rolling…. Well before we dive into God’s word here I want issue somewhat of a disclaimer about this sermon series… Today we start our new series called You, Me and the color of my skin. ![]()
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