The New Testament prioritizes identity in Christ over ethnic origin or geopolitical maps. Yet the latter is what too many believers of a certain persuasion end up getting locked in, at the expense of the Gospel, and in favor of toxic idolatries.
All believers regardless of ethnic origin or locale are co-heirs in Christ by faith.
You rightly pasted the harsher reminders Piper has for those Christians who try to use the Bible to justify racism and war-mongering.
Do Arab Christians want America to bomb Israel so they can live in Israel where Christ walked or do they just want American Christians to see that Arab Christians living in the Middle East are in peril because they live in an area filled with antichrists of Judaism and Islam?
If they could make it to America, they’d see plenty of antichrists here, too.
I just hope they aren’t looking to America and its bombs as the only chance they have to obtain peace in their life.
That’s what Christ is to give them.
But the reality is there’s plenty of Christians worldwide that aren’t looking to Christ for their peace. They may find themselves looking to America..
And maybe Christians around the world would be interested to know that Christ and His 12 is exactly the number America began with, 13.
And both His Church and America grew at/to 50.
Maybe Christians around the world aren’t wrong to look to America for help.
It might be baked into America’s prophetic cake.
All the while it’s the Church that’s supposed to support around the world. And some look to Rome and not America when they hear ‘Church’.
What a great example of Divine Providence..
Except, of course, when it comes to "white chrstians."
I don't get it. I have never gotten it. And I grew up in the Bible Belt South.
Yet over and over and over right here on FR non-white chrstians are thrown under the bus as if chrstianity were an ethnic religion--a sort of Shinto--for white people. What the hey??? Are not non-white chrstians and white chrstians co-religionists? Were Paul and the apostles "white chrstians?" (Of course non-white chrstians have become just as bad.)
You can always count on certain people who ignore all this and pull out the "universalist" card only for attacking the Jewish people. Then suddenly we're all brothers living on a big blue marble in space. But when people are screaming their lungs out about "white chrstians" count on them to be totally silent.
I've never seen so much hypocrisy.
Quote-The New Testament prioritizes identity in Christ over ethnic origin or geopolitical maps. Yet the latter is what too many believers of a certain persuasion end up getting locked in, at the expense of the Gospel, and in favor of toxic idolatries.
All believers regardless of ethnic origin or locale are co-heirs in Christ by faith._______________
Interesting point. The dynamics of latter day eschatology scripture interpretations.
They greatly rely on the well used Old Testament phrase...”I will bless those who bless thee and curse those who curse thee”. Do you want to be blessed?
Funny thing is Jesus himself did not emphasise this issue at all during his ministry.